…Reaganomics, just magnified: more tax cuts for the wealthy (zero direct taxation of their primary source of income–making money off money, and –to the extent that the incidence of corporate…

…of those who had relatively simple earned incomes (a category that had at one time included Bradley, Kemp, and also President Reagan), and to the detriment of many whose incomes…

…increased during his term would continue all the way to September 2010. All data is in September 2010 dollars. To interpret: In December 1980, a month before Reagan took office,…

…headline reads: “Obama Added More to National Debt in First 19 Months Than All Presidents from Washington Through Reagan Combined, Says Gov’t Data.” Unfortunately, this type of simplistic analysis suffers…

…absolutely not a coincidence that the basic themes of Blow’s column were also sounded by pundits in the first half of Ronald Reagan’s first term. Reagan, after all, was the…

…surprised because the argument seems to have more than a few weaknesses. What Sumner is doing is trying to show that the policies pursued by Thatcher and Reagan were a…

…all of their income just to meet daily needs, and those with considerable wealth won’t even notice whether they have another few dollars or not. The decades since Reagan took…

…private sector GDP than it does to look at taxes paid as a share of GDP as a whole. Also, an unscrupulous government can pull a Reagan – that is,…

…roll the tape. Greg Sargent noted a 2002 incident in which Wilson attacked a Democratic House member who had the audacity to note that the Reagan administration supplied weapons to…

Robert Waldmann Steve Benen made a graph out of a table from a column by Bruce Bartlett. Bruce Bartlett is an interesting figure — a heterodox conservative who praises Reagan…