pinshooter45
Master
No one is perfect!
Like most good Presidents their first term is good and the second is lackluster, due to lame duck status. I've read that he felt he had no choice but to sign the Brady bill. Brady was a very close friend of Reagan's. And Reagan signed the bill as a favor to his close friend, and pressure from his advisors. The Reagan Tax Cuts nearly doubled the intake to the treasury from $500 billion to over $900 billion. But in order to get his cuts he had to give the Dems something, so spending went up. And in the second term the spending got more out of control to get things Regan wanted for the milatary, he had to give the Dems even more. that's as simple as I can make it. And the nature of politics!
Like most good Presidents their first term is good and the second is lackluster, due to lame duck status. I've read that he felt he had no choice but to sign the Brady bill. Brady was a very close friend of Reagan's. And Reagan signed the bill as a favor to his close friend, and pressure from his advisors. The Reagan Tax Cuts nearly doubled the intake to the treasury from $500 billion to over $900 billion. But in order to get his cuts he had to give the Dems something, so spending went up. And in the second term the spending got more out of control to get things Regan wanted for the milatary, he had to give the Dems even more. that's as simple as I can make it. And the nature of politics!