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Formfiller@lemmy.world 7 hours agoWe also used to have a 70% wealth tax in those “good ol days” pre Reagan
Comment on Being poor is expensive
Formfiller@lemmy.world 7 hours agoWe also used to have a 70% wealth tax in those “good ol days” pre Reagan
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Reagan was a good family man who believed in small town values and honesty.
He threw away his wife for a bimbo after moving to Hollywood.
kreskin@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Reagan was a commie scare guy who blacklisted his enemies in the screenactors guild if they didnt share his conservative viewpoint.
Reaganomics was flatly stupid or a con artist, take your pick-- just tax cuts for the rich that were supposed to trickle down and never did.
Iran Contra happened on his watch (although he claims he knew nothing about it). The CIA were literally flying pallets of cocaine into florida air force bases on private cargo planes and selling them on our streets to make money. I find it hard to beleive that a single lowly colonel could have run all of it, using the presidents CIA.
He was a bad B-list actor. His movies sucked really bad, even back then.
He was reportedly a closetted bisexual (with Howard cook before he was married) whose shame steered him to slow walk AIDs treatments for 6 years while his surgeon general screamed for him to allow it, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands who needed treatment during an explosion of AIDS.
The only good thing about him was that he wasnt under AIPAC’s thumb. But he still gets an F on policy, although republicans and dems both adored his grandfather-leader BS act.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 7 hours ago
https://youtu.be/lFV1uT-ihDo
Oliver North ‘American Dad”
kreskin@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
never seen that one, pretty good!