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"He started by destroying the unions that supported high wages and benefits. A third of us were unionized when Reagan came into office; now it's in single-digits and Trump just de-unionized an additional few-hundred-thousand federal workers.

Then he instituted the first long-lasting freeze on the minimum wage (9 years), cut the top income tax rate from 74% to 27%, "reformed" Social Security by raising the retirement age to 67 and taxing its benefits as income, ended enforcement of the Fairness Doctrine (1987), gutted federal support for colleges, and threw small local businesses to the wolves by abandoning enforcement of 100 years of anti-monopoly laws and securities regulations that forbade stock buy-backs."

Here's the 7 min video version from Thomm

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You're like Whack a Mole.... you get whacked down every time you stick your head up on different threads.

WWII expansion did more than either the monetary standard change or the New Deal to make the economy great, er, good enough; to increase the size of the Middle Class.

The real point is what Reagan and the Republicans after him, including the current Project 25 Fascists, did to make the Middle Class Smaller Again.

Try to follow along as slowly as makes you feel comfortable.