Talk:Reaganomics

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Merger proposal - withdrawn

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The result, due to the merge being withdrawn, was no merge.

Hi, I have proposed that this article be merged with the recently created Domestic policy of the Reagan administration article. I created the article to encompass everything President Reagan did domestically; though it is short because I haven't had much time to write anything, this merger would greatly benefit the article and "launch it", so to speak, with the majority of its information already there. As his major domestic policy initiatives were his economic policies, and thus would be the bulk of the information on the Domestic policy page, I've had a hard time writing about them while trying not to repeat information and make it sound very similar to this article. In other words, I'm stuck. If there are two pages with very similar content, this one well written and cited, then why should we repeat the information in two seperate places? This article, and its main editors, can carry on business as it/you normally would, but the article would be more centrally located, and soon it will be much longer. I hope that you see, as I do, that this is a good idea. Best, Happyme22 (talk) 18:31, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

After thinking, I have withdrawn this merge because there are many other parts of the Reagan administration, as well as other economic theories and perspectives, that cannot all be merged into this article. Unless there are many votes favoring a merge, I'm going to allow it to remain here. Happyme22 (talk) 19:50, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Ok I know that Reagan was famous for his tax cuts in his early presidency, but as far as I know after his presidency taxes experienced net increase, not decrease. So basically if you ignore his early tax cuts, after his presidency Americans started to pay more taxes. Can somebody back up or debunk my knowledge with any reliable links? As for example I know he decreased capital gains tax firstly, but later he increased it to the levels before he reduced it. Thank you in advance.