Dear Millennials: I'm sorry we didn't stop them

[Mr.Bill]

39. In 1980 my dad was a aircraft mechanic at United Airlines.

My dad had always voted Democratic, as did everyone in the family. When you work for the airlines, you get discount passes to fly. I think we paid something like 5% of the face value of the ticket. This was a huge deal for our family, since we had relatives to visit on the other side of the country. Jimmy Carter said something about the discount on the tickets being considered taxable income.

My dad belonged the the IAM, the International Association of Machinists And because of this ticket issue, the union told them not to vote for Carter. They also noted that Reagan would be very pro union because he was once president of the Screen Actors Guild. My dad voted for Reagan, only once and he soon regretted it.