| Did you go to university? help to write a research paper I'm not sure how Reagan's policies could be called "supply side" in any meaningful sense of the term. Private saving collapsed. Budget deficits skyrocketed. Yes, inflation fell, but that was due to Paul Volcker, not Ronald Reagan. Reagan's fiscal policies were expansionary. In fact, if you add up the 8 budgets that Reagan submitted and compared them to the budgets proposed by the House Democrats, it turns out that Reagan's budgets were slightly larger. The one really good thing that Reagan did was to accept Sen. Bill Bradley's 1986 tax reform package. Now that was a supply side oriented tax bill because it reduced the kinds of tax distortions that Reagan's 1981 tax bill created (e.g., crazy depreciation allowances, subsidies for office buildings, sales of tax credits, etc.).
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