Reagan's Economic Agenda A Trojan Horse for Corporate Greed

Where those regulations were aimed at the greedy, they now penetrated to most Americans lives. Thus, Americans in some ways were displaced by 1980 from the ... Here's how Reagan's tax cuts in the 1980s favored corporations and the wealthy, setting the stage for 'trickle-down economics' as we know it ... Reagan expanded the Carter administration's efforts to decontrol and deregulate the economy. Congress deregulated the banking and natural gas industries and ... hurt by the Reagan proposals for cuts in foodstamps, welfare, school ... trying to send President Ronald Reagan a message: They want jobs - not tax ... ... Ronald Reagan. Public approval of Carter declined as the U.S. was ... How much did the hostage crisis hurt Jimmy Carter? Though Carter ... The Reagan administration slashed the priime interest rate by more than half, from an unprecedented 21.5% in January 1981 to 10% in August 1988. This ... America was in trouble when Ronald Reagan was elected to office. He inherited an economy mired in stagflation, a combination of double-digit ... The introduction of his divisive “Reaganomics,” which provided massive tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans, would stagnate wages, increase ... When President Reagan took office in 1981 the top marginal personal income tax rate was 70 percent. We have retreated a bit from the low tax rates of ... Reagan and his allies embraced supply-side economics, predicting that cutting taxes on the wealthy would enable them to create jobs, thereby ...