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The really important blow against this state of affairs was not the Reagan tax cuts but rather Paul Volcker's interest-rate hikes, which ended double-digit inflation.
So Reagan settled for keeping government domestic spending roughly constant, while he focused his energy on defense hikes aimed, as he put it, at inviting the Soviets into an arms race that they couldn't win.
It was the poorly paid, whose marginal tax rates, thanks to Social Security tax hikes, actually went up.
If you missed our previous links to 1) President's Clinton's vacuous Social Security promise and 2) a summary of the very real tax hikes and benefit cuts proposed by Moynihan and Kerrey, click and .
There are some interesting, though not too difficult hikes on various islands.