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Ike was a giant.
So was Taft.
Ike was a giant.
So was Taft.
Reagan reforming the Tax code was a major accomplishment. It was majorly messed up.
Not saying Ike wasn't a good President, but anybody who was in office at that time was going to preside over a huge period of economic growth and prosperity.
Reagan's economic policies are why the middle class is shrinking so dramatically.
Ike's infrastructure investment won't be duplicated anytime soon by the 'Pubs. The whole point of the Laffer Curve was to find the tax rate sweet spot where revenues were maximized; Grover Norquist and his ilk are looking to minimize revenues to do away with government. Brownback's Kansas is a fiscal train wreck. It's trickled over to Pat Roberts' race where he had to bring in both Jeb and Palin to shore up GOP partisans.
Reagan's economic policies are why the middle class is shrinking so dramatically.
What changed your outlook after 2004?
I'll admit the Clinton / Lewinsky witch hunt is what finally pushed me to the left after voting for Dole in '96.
1. I don't agree with that. As many liberals point out, looking at Reagan's policies now they were quite moderate. He shored up SS, was in favor of means testing and raised taxes in other areas where needed.
2. That's kinda like the conservatives that blamed the housing crisis on the CRA. Many of the factors that have hurt the middle class didn't start developing until the 90s.
The interstate system was for national defense not infrastructure.
Without question, as compared to Republicans of today, Reagan was moderate. That doesn't change the fact that trickle down economics, and the GOP's strict adherence to it, has been a major factor in decimating the middle class.
his attacks on collective bargaining and allowing scab workers were also factors in harming the middle class.
"Collective bargaining" is the most misleading term in the history of the world . What's collective about some strong arm third party forcing you to pay then money so that they can slightly help you, and makes themselves rich. It's the modern version of sharecropping.
"Collective bargaining" is the most misleading term in the history of the world . What's collective about some strong arm third party forcing you to pay then money so that they can slightly help you, and makes themselves rich. It's the modern version of sharecropping.
I think it was wrong, but he had no choice. The House would have shut down the country for months had he not done what he did.
Whereas, not prosecuting Wall Street, bankers, brokers and mortgage brokers is black and white issue of right and wrong, the Bush tax cuts and GITMO aren't. Those two are things a POTUS cannot do unilaterally.
I think it was wrong, but he had no choice. The House would have shut down the country for months had he not done what he did.
Whereas, not prosecuting Wall Street, bankers, brokers and mortgage brokers is black and white issue of right and wrong, the Bush tax cuts and GITMO aren't. Those two are things a POTUS cannot do unilaterally.