Tax and Reagan

Despite its successes on the American economical structure and more significantly, its benefits for the rich, Reaganomics jeopardized the welfare of Americans of the lower class as Reagan’s administration cut 60% of funding towards social programs that primarily assisted mothers, children, and minorities like Social Security, Medicaid, Food Stamps, and federal education programs. The administration also proved to be detrimental to the citizens in the urban area with budget cuts to federal legal services for the poor as well as decreased funding for public transportation and the eliminated anti-poverty programs such as the Community Development Block program. When Reagan first came into office, city budgets used over 20 percent of federal funding but towards 1988, it decreased to 6 percent. The results of these cuts were so destructive that many inner city schools, public libraries, hospital/clinics, police and fire departments were forced to close down indefinitely.

In 1980, the United States was emerging from a troubled decade. The 1970s had been marked by an ugly end to the Vietnam War, the demoralizing Watergate spectacle, rampant inflation, unemployment and an energy crisis. The Soviets had just invaded Afghanistan, rejuvenating

The 1980 presidential election of the United States featured three primary candidates, Republican Ronald Reagan, Democrat Jimmy Carter and liberal Republican John Anderson. Ronald Reagan was the governor of California before he decided to run for the presidency. John Anderson was a representative in Illinois and Carter was the incumbent. The lengthy Iran hostage crisis sharpened public opinions by the beginning of the election season. In the 1970s, the United States were experiencing a straining episode of low economic growth, high price increases and interest rates and an irregular energy crisis. The sense of discomfort in both domestic and foreign affairs in the nation were heading downward, this added to the downward spiral that was already going on. Between Carter, Anderson and Reagan, the general election campaign of the 1980s seemed more concerned with shadowboxing around political issues rather than a serious discussion of the issues that concerned voters.

Reagan’s policies and practices on planning required the administration as well as Reagan to set objectives and to determine what course of action would be needed to achieve those objectives. President Reagan’s term indicated to time when there were numbers of Americans living below the poverty level, his goal was to expand economic prosperity. In order to be successful in the economic expansion, the president had the strategic plan to input the largest marginal tax cut in American history that the media referred to as Reaganomics. Reagan deemed that a tax cut of this nature would finally spawn more returns for the federal government, thus “this new spending would stimulate the economy and create new jobs” (Reaganomics, 2008-2014).

Reagan brought new techniques of leading and communicating with the American people that no one has ever seen before. Through these techniques, he won the presidential race of 1980 in a landslide, beating former president Jimmy Carter 489 to 49. This was the first time in 28 years that the Republican party was in charge of the Senate. This would mark the beginning of a legacy, known as the Reagan Era. President Reagan wasn’t just focused on establishing a better American life, but also, benefitting those around the world.

When he took office, the inflation rate was 13.5%, tax rates were high, the unemployment rate was 7.6%, and there had been a long period of stagflation. In his first inaugural address, he said “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Ronald Reagan believed that if government spending is reduced, then the United States could achieve economic recovery. He also believed that by reducing the marginal tax rates on income from both labor and capital, reducing regulation, and reducing inflation by controlling the growth of the money supply the United States’ economy would improve. This idea became known as “Reaganomics”. Reaganomics was the biggest attempt to change the economic state of the United States since the New Deal in

Ronald Reagan: Cowboy, Movie Star, President of the United States. Ronald Reagan was not the typical presidential candidate in 1979. His charisma had won over most of the nation in the 1979 election which pinned him against the incumbent president Jimmy Carter. This paper will describe why to me he was a successful president, the relationships he had with his constituents, and his performance from 1981-1989.

From 1981 to 1989, Ronald Reagan was a great leader for America. Least Importantly, Reagan campaigned very hard to become president. Reagan Worked hard and didn’t give up. During one of his debates, Reagan appeared tired and very confused. Many papers stated that Reagan was too old for presidency. Although the press used his age against him, he said, “I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponents youth and inexperience” (Kent 72). One fact that gave Reagan an advantage was that he was going to deny Mondale’s pledge to raise tax to pay for new government programs. Furthermore, Reagan was good because he wanted to help the government and economy for the people. According to Kent, Reagan cut tax rates for the people by 25%.Throughout

Reagan gave voice to the values that had served America well—thrift, patriotism, and hard work—and often recounted the wisdom of the Founding Fathers. He also championed the causes of the pro-life and family-values movements that sought to counter the societal upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. this brought back the true american values that american values and made america believe in itself again. people began to stay true to socialist values and set a precedence to keep the american dream alive and affect the generations to

As the creator of Reaganomics, former president Ronald Reagan was elected to office in the year 1981. Reagan was extremely focused on strengthening the economy of the United States while also preventing the government from being overly involved in the daily lives of the American people. He was the former governor of California; during that time he had many issues with creating an effective budget. There were many attempts to fix the budget but it only hurt the California economy even more. Reagan also had issues socially with the Black Panther Party and young college students. Although, he had many issues as governor that did not stop Mr. Reagan from running for president of the United States, he strongly disagreed with President Ford and that pushed him harder to run and win. Reagan effectively addresses the people of America in his first inaugural address through appeal to unity, appeal to patriotism and appeal to ethos with historic American references.

After barely winning a second term of governorship in California, Reagan set his sights on the presidency. When he decided to fully go for it in 1976 he ran into an obstacle: Gerald Ford. Reagan did not want to wait so he gave a harsh critique of Gerald’s policies from a conservative viewpoint. After losing that election the preparation for the election of 1980 began immediately. Many factors helped him become a appealing candidate and he became the 40th president. His hope filled speeches and his willingness to change his views to represent the people were large factors that helped him win. Hours

A change of pace back home started when President Reagan began his “reagenomics.” During both of his terms, Reagan presided over an ever-growing gap between the rich and the poor. He would decline wages and living standards for working families, an attack on labor unions as a way to lift Americans into the middle class, a dramatic increase in poverty and homelessness, and the merging and deregulation of the financial industry that led to the current mortgage meltdown, foreclosure problems and haunting recession. Inevitable social and economic forces did not cause these trends. They resulted from Reagan’s policy and political choices based on an underlying ideology.

Reagan first challenged President Gerald Ford to become Candidate for President in 1976. Ford, being considerably more moderate, beat Reagan narrowly, however failed to acquire the Presidency itself, losing it to Jimmy Carter. However, in 1980, Jimmy Carter had struggled for 12 months to free American Hostages in Iran. With high inflation and the economy tanking, Carter’s plea-bargaining attempts with the American Public didn’t help him win a second term. Reagan began his plan for rebuilding the future of America, first off, by teaching them how to dream again. His own dreams were that of individual enterprise and a government with less control over its people. When Carter was defeated by a landslide, it was called the “Reagan

Ronald “Dutch” Reagan was President of the United States from 1980 to 1988. His Presidency is one that is of great debate currently, with many current crises in the world having to do with the same subjects that Reagan dealt with during his terms as President. Reagan was a man that came from very little and never intended to achieve greatness, and whom greatness was very much thrust upon. His life reads almost like a movie, with so many tiny crucial threads of detail coming together over the duration of his life that led him to what he became. Ronald Reagan was a man whom the generalization of just another president does a tremendous disservice. A man of the people, his life, beliefs and political ideology were shaped by those whom he was surrounded by throughout his life. Beginning from a young age, Dutch would have many trials and tribulations that would set him on his path to becoming one of the most memorable presidents to date.

When President Ronald Reagan first took over the United State in 1981, the country was still suffer from the effect of the Great Depression and the World War II. The economic was so poor that both taxes and the unemployment rate was high, inflation was also a serious problem. The morale of the military was low too, because during the Carter presidency, Carter diminished the military and stop producing many effective weapons. People started to be disappointed with the democrat government. Reagan, a republican, won 51% of the popular vote and 489 electoral votes and finally beat Jimmy Carter on the president election in the 1980. During Reagan's presidency, he did a lot to fix the economics and rebuild the military. Reagan was a success president