odinsblog: myrandomstuffpage: forcedfarce44:last-fast-naturalist:Corporations couldn’t buy
odinsblog: myrandomstuffpage: forcedfarce44: last-fast-naturalist: Corporations couldn’t buy their own stock to manipulate the stock market until Reagan. Unions had the strength to defend workers and collectively bargain for better pay and benefits, too. It’s no mistake that Trump stole Ronnie’s bullshit slogan, “Make America Great Again”. Fuck Reagan Also, it should be noted that dropping the marginal tax rate from 70% to 28% -and- taxing Social Security … those two things are not unrelated. Ronald Reagan taxed Social Security to pay for tax cuts for the rich. You can call it a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich, but that almost sanitizes what he did - he quite literally pulled a reverse Robin Hood and robbed from the poor & elderly to give to the rich. A general rule of thumb with Reagan is this: No matter how bad you think he was at first, dig just a little deeper and you’ll find he was even worse than you could have possibly imagined. This is true of any conservative president, but especially so with Reagan. Just talk to some people (I said “people,” not Republicans) who were in their 20s, 30s and 40s when he was president. It’ll blow your mind like it did mine. -- source link