Saturday, December 14, 2024

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What was the Reagan Revolution about?

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by Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Craig Roberts:

It depends on whether you were part of it or viewed it through the eyes of the liberal media.

I was a part of the Reagan Revolution. Reagan adopted the Kemp-Roth bill and the supply-side policy it represented as his economic policy to cure stagflation. As I had written the bill and had built as a member of the Congressional staff support for it among House Republicans and Senate Republicans and Democrats, Reagan reasoned that I had a stake in his economic policy and would get it unmolested out of his administration so that Congress could vote on it.