Friday, July 18, 2025

George Stephanopoulos Versus Reality - by Ira Stoll

Decades after President Reagan’s tax cuts, the press’s refusal to accurately report on the reality of their impact is clouding the reaction to President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.
Here is ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos on the July 6 “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” show
Stephanopoulos is interviewing the chair of Trump’s White House Council of Economic Advisers, Stephen Miran:

Stephanopoulos’s claim, in relation to Reagan’s tax cuts, that “the growth didn’t come” is not accurate.
  • Actually, real GDP growth for 1984 was an astonishingly strong 7.2 percent.



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