Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...borrow and spend Reagan-Bush years have created a burgeoning deficit that constantly chips away at America's competitiveness by decreasing the pool of funds available for investment and growth. As manufacturing jobs have been lost, little has been done to restructure the economy to create new jobs in competitive industries...
CLINTON'S roots are populist, and he has not forgotten about the people most disaffected by the Reagan years--people whose votes, of course, he would love to win. But even if it's just unctuous political rhetoric, Clinton's concern for these people is missing from the plan offered by Paul E. Tsongas...
While Tsongas has become the yuppie/suburb candidate (just last Saturday in South Carolina, he beat Clinton only among voters making more than $75,000), Clinton has reached out to the middle-and low-income families who suffered most under Reagan and Bush. And with his rhetoric come innovative and logical ideas...
...would hike the top tax bracket for those earning more than $200,000--those who have received huge windfalls in tax breaks during the Reagan-Bush years. With this money, he would spark a short-term jump in the economy by cutting taxes for those earning less than...
Unlike Tsongas, he would not provide more breaks for the rich with deep cuts in the capital gains tax. Tsongas "probusiness" message sounds a lot like Ronald Reagan's If we cut those nasty corporate taxes, all the friendly business execs will trickle higher wages down to their workers and start up lots of new factories...