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About those demonstrators, Reagan said at the end of his speech: "I wonder if they ever asked themselves that if they should have the kind of government they apparently seek, no one would ever be able to do what they are doing again". Reagan's cue card with the speech's namesake line
Reagan was the first American president to address the British Parliament. [9] In a famous address on June 8, 1982, to the British Parliament in the Royal Gallery of the Palace of Westminster, Reagan said, "the forward march of freedom and democracy will leave Marxism–Leninism on the ash-heap of history." [10] [11] Reagan ran for reelection ...
Reagan's policies stressed conservative economic values, starting with his implementation of supply-side economic policies, dubbed as "Reaganomics" by both supporters and detracters. His policies also included the largest tax cut in American history as well as increased defense spending as part of his Soviet strategy .
Before President Bush became Reagan's vice president, he viewed his eventual running mate's economic policies with great skepticism. Reagan was a proponent of supply-side economics, favoring reduced income and capital gains tax rates, which supporters claim actually increase government revenue over time. It was the last point that Bush ...
Reagan was the first presidential candidate ever to appear at the fair, and he knew exactly what he was doing when he told that crowd, "I believe in states' rights." Reagan apologists have every right to be ashamed of that appearance by their hero, but they have no right to change the meaning of it, which was unmistakable.
Reagan says that "Government has invaded the free precincts of private citizens," stating that the U.S. government owns "1/5 of the total industrial capacity of the United States." Reagan says "One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as ...
Ronald Reagan gives a televised address from the Oval Office, outlining his plan for tax reductions in July 1981. "Starve the beast" is a political strategy employed by American conservatives to limit government spending [1] [2] [3] by cutting taxes, to deprive the federal government of revenue in a deliberate effort to force it to reduce spending.
Reagan discussed the federal deficit, the size of the federal budget, abortion, crime, drugs, the line-item veto, foreign relations and the Soviet–Afghan War. He famously summarized the effect of government intervention on the poor: [2] Some years ago the federal government declared War on Poverty, and poverty won.