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Originally Posted by Samm
Keynes believed that demand would create supply, but Reaganomics started from the opposite idea, namely that supply would create demand. In this way of thinking, the supply side of the economy had to be stimulated in order to create wealth. The best way to do this was to cut the marginal tax rates on personal income.
Reagans supply side economics brought us out of the stagflation that Carter left us in. During the Carter years, the top marginal tax rate on personal income rose to the insane record level of 70%.
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Stagflation was Jimmy Carter's fault? Hmmm, here I thought it was an inherited condition from the Nixonian era.