Are Republicans Nostalgic for the Gilded Age?
The Republican Party today could be rechristened the Party of the Second Gilded Age. Hostility to abortion and affirmative action,...
The Republican Party today could be rechristened the Party of the Second Gilded Age. Hostility to abortion and affirmative action,...
"Ronald Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics...and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.'" —The Gipper's Economy. To see how the Trickle Down Con was sold to the public click here.