>But in 1982 and 1984 he signed two of the biggest peacetime (at the time) tax increase bills.
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>He also signed tax reform legislation - which eliminated tax breaks and shelters and effectively led to higher income Americans getting larger tax bils.
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It also led to the S&L collapse- some of those tax shelters were underpinning much of that industry.
Actually, it was Bill Bradley, a dem, who was behind most of that legislation.