For the record - Feb. 9, 2008

Ronald Reagan: A Feb. 1 commentary about President Reagan’s legacy stated that taxes in 1989 were $999 billion and the deficit was $141 billion. The correct rounded-off amounts are $991 billion in taxes and a deficit of $153 billion. It also stated that taxes were a higher share of the economy at the end of the Reagan administration than at the end of the Clinton administration; the opposite is true.