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LARRY KUDLOW: How about a Reagan-style reconciliation tax cut? All right?

Now, in case you didn’t see it, please rush out, get today’s Wall Street Journal, and read James Freeman’s fabulous column: "How about Reagan-Style Reconciliation?" All right. I was there as a young man, deputy in the Office of Management and Budget, and it’s all music to my ears.Basically, President Reagan’s tax cut magic. The first major vote was roughly 45 years ago, July, 1981. Reagan’s big tax cut bill passed the House by 238 to 195 votes. It was a Democratic House, remember that. A bit later by the by, the Senate would pass it 89 to 11. It was a Republican Senate.The Gipper signed the le...