The Iran-Contra Affair Reagan's Foreign Policy Dilemma

... can express those sentiments because Ronald Reagan really did. ... In terms of the way we feel about our country today, what do we give Ronald Reagan credit for? Ronald Reagan helped shift the tax burden from wealth to work, he helped hollow out the middle class, his War on Drugs helped launch the ... Scott Walker of Wisconsin and David Boaz, executive vice president of the Cato Institute, joined The Fund for American Studies (TFAS) on Feb. 1, ... Reagan is the only Republican president that Democrats do not evaluate negatively, though the elder George Bush also gets relatively neutral ... His unflinching confidence in the ability and destiny of the American people helped to navigate our country through its clash with the Soviet ... In the early 1980s, during President Ronald Reagan's first few years in office, his administration slashed Medicaid expenditures by more ... On the domestic front, President Ronald Reagan implemented policies to reduce the federal government's reach into the daily lives and pocketbooks of Americans, ... In his reign, these tax cuts lowered the marginal tax rates from 78% to a mere 28%. For those unaware, a marginal tax rate is the additional ... And it wasn't just Reagan's economic policies that fueled the racial wealth gap. The president was also a staunch champion of tough-on-crime ... The Reagan NLRB aggressively reversed precedents, and narrowed workers' rights, and workers are still feeling the effects of a number of key decisions made by ...