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In reply to the discussion: Reaganomics killed America’s middle class [View all]Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)The contest is not between workers over who can work the hardest or smartest (and it escapes me how anyone would think subjecting American workers to this life and death struggle is a good thing) but between owners over who can spend the least. In any case, I seriously get tired of the empty talking points from both sides. The 'I blame Reagan and Reaganomics' nonsense is for Dittoheads and parrots. Every administration in HISTORY, both before Reagan and after, has had to make a decision about how much or little tax and regulation the government would and should do, and what programs government does well and which it does poorly. Reagan argued that the government of his day was a nit much, and that reducing taxes and simplifying the tax code would provide some stimulative effect. This isn't even all that interesting, and in fact he later decided that they had gone too far and taxes were increased..
That's some Armageddon level depravity there. It's amazing the world didn't end that day. Fortunately for all of us, we muddled through somehow, with each successive administration reconsidering the same questions (many times a year) and deciding how to move forward from there. But all of them--
ALL of them, Democrat and Republican alike--
Bound by the Titanium shackles of Reagan's preternatural and diabolical will. Or something.