Reply #27: Our economic and regulatory policies were indeed better [View All]

[dorkulon]

while our civil rights policies were obviously much worse, from the post-war era until the '70s. Up to about the mid-'60s, we had very progressive taxation, which created the robust middle class conservatives now mourn. Our regulatory bodies, such as the FDA, were much stronger as well. Pre-Reagan, these things really were better. It's a cop-out to say the Reagan-Bush era is "just as bad" as it ever was; it's just not true.