…and 2009 the corporate share of income tax revenue was just over 6% of the totalrevenues (FICA included). Its lowest points. Reagan/Bush II. However, interestingly enough, Bush II did manage…

…at 1950 – 1968, and the fifth from 1968 to 1988. Because the Reagan era is so pivotal in the American psyche, it was also covered again in the sixth…

…single year growth during the Reagan administration, and the other shows the average of the single year growth rates during the Reagan administration. I figured it would be a good…

…some of the growth which depends on his successor’s behavior. For example, if you lag Carter’s term by one year, you get Reagan’s first year, a year in which Reagan’s…

…Reagan administration was the last full-fledged experiment) and failed miserably. By the end of the Reagan years, the federal budget deficit had ballooned and the only thing that trickled down…

…standards, for every union job there was typically an identically-compensated non-union job, meaning about two-thirds of America had the benefits and pay associated with union jobs pre-Reagan).Thanks to Reagan’s war…

…increase in revenues so that “the tax cut will pay for itself.” From the 1981 tax cut of Ronald Reagan through the 2017 Trump tax cut, none of these delivered…

…to reduce poverty had stalled because we stopped trying to solve the problem. I bought into the idea, popular among progressives, the election of President Ronald Reagan (as well as…

…President Ronald Reagan made popular in the 1980s. From the Reagan administration on, every tax cut for the rich has skewed to the wealthy6. Just like prior “trickle down” plans,…

…natural gas, other than the odd city bus or garbage truck in random municipalities? The answer is a simple but unpleasant one. See, we in the US would label the…