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Like J. F. Kennedy, Reagan's rate cutting policy was built to encourage consumption. Reagan and Kennedy succeeded, contrary to what progressive economists believed, to provide an economic recovery. Nevertheless, to cope with growth, it was necessary for the state to provide more money, which generated rapid national debt growth.
Answer: d) National debt grew rapidly.
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The criticism that the tax payments of the rich would fall under ERTA was based on a static conception of human behavior. As a 1982 JEC study pointed out,similar across-the-board tax cuts had been implemented in the 1920s as the Mellon tax cuts, and in the 1960s as the Kennedy tax cuts. In both cases the reduction of high marginal tax rates actually increased tax payments by "the rich," also increasing their share of total individual income taxes paid. Unfortunately, estimates of ERTA by the Democrat-controlled CBO continued to show falling tax payment by upper income taxpayers, even after actual IRS data had become available showing a surge of income tax payments by affluent taxpayers. So I would say the answer is B
