History of the United States II / Unit 18 USH2 2565 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Contested from 1981
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The idea
From nineteen eighty-one the federal role was contested from the right. Reagan's tax act, entry 2256, cut taxes by a quarter over three years, on entry 2253's supply-side reasoning.
In practice
A president arguing that lower taxes at the top would reach workers as jobs.
Where people slip
Entry 2307 records the Yawp's finding that the New Deal and Great Society programmes survived, battered but intact.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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