by Richard Eskow | Feb 7, 2014 | Conservatism, Reagan Revolution
January 20 marked the 25th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s inauguration as President. And February 6 marked the 103rd birthday of the former sports announcer, actor, governor of California and 40th President of the United States of America. Reagan’s economic...
by Bill Scher | Mar 25, 2013 | Reagan Revolution
Today, The Week published my essay "Why Obama's Legacy Doesn't Need a Grand Bargain." While austerity ideologues like Alan Simpson are insisting that President needs a "grand bargain" -- swapping entitlement reform for tax reform -- to have a great historical legacy,...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 10, 2013 | Reagan Revolution
By now, you've heard all about the "platinum coin option", in which the president averts the next debt limit "crisis" by issuing a trillion dollar platinum coin. It's a solution right out out of The Simpsons. No seriously. It's episode twenty, season nine — "The...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 31, 2012 | Blog, Reagan Revolution
Before 'W' got in and made changes in taxes and military spending we were paying off the debt. Bush said the deficits that resulted from his changes were "extremely positive news." (Yes, that is in quotes, click the link.) Before that Reagan also caused deficits on...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 12, 2012 | Blog, Reagan Revolution
(This post was originally dated August 9, 2010) Conservatives like to say that taxes are theft. In fact it is tax cuts that are theft because they break a long-standing contract. The American Social Contract: We, the People built our democracy and the empowerment and...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 18, 2012 | Blog, Reagan Revolution
(This post was originally published June 16, 2010) It seems that you can look at a chart of almost anything and right around 1981 or soon after you'll see the chart make a sharp change in direction, and probably not in a good way. And I really do mean almost anything,...
