Before his election as President, then-candidate Ronald Reagan foreshadowed the strategy during the 1980 US Presidential debates, saying "John Anderson tells us that first we've got to reduce spending before we can reduce taxes.
” 当选之前，当时的总统候选人罗纳德·里根，在1980年美国总统竞选辩论时预示了这个策略，说：“约翰·安德森说，首先我们得减少支出，我们才可以减少税收。