…Irresponsibility Tax for those two cycles [Reagan and Bush II] will be about $200 billion per year. To put that in perspective, the Irresponsibility Tax from the Reagan and Bush…

…Graham, Milton Friedman, Thatcher, and Reagan. The only figure on the Righties’ best list who is also on the Left’s worst list is Ronald Reagan, no surprise there. I thought…

…been at epidemic levels since the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s. It is, as it turns out, highly contagious, spreading to state courts and from one federal judge to another…

…the specifics of the Reagan-era conservative legal movement, which involves some really weird doctrines that they claim as constitutional ones, some of which the public is clueless about and that…

…during the Carter years, and returned to government service during the Reagan years. He worked on the Reagan transition team, the Federal Trade Commission, and eventually as director of OMB,…

…re-elected) 1944 (D FDR re-elected) 1956 (R Eisenhower re-elected) 1964 (D Johnson elected)** 1972 (R Nixon re-elected) 1984 (R Reagan re-elected) 1988 (R Bush succeeds R Reagan) 1992 (D Clinton…

…the top, but the rivers run dry and slow at the bottom. It is a liquidity thing. It is the reason that Reagan and others were so wrong about “Trickle-down…

…of St. Ronald Reagan: Currently the Obama labor market recovery has almost completely equaled the Reagan recovery 77 months in. If there is continued improvement for the next 6-12 months,…

…increased them every year thereafter, mostly increasing the burden on those in the lower end of the income distribution, so Reagan is remembered as the great tax cutter. Reagan’s administration…

…limits antitrust thinking even today. When coupled with the deregulatory ideology of the Reagan era, the Bork approach to antitrust law meant that government largely stepped out of the way…