Ronald Reagan: Supply Side Economics & "Welfare Queens"

What a Creep

Aug 30 2024 • 59 mins

What a Creep
Season 26, Episode 7
Ronald Reagan, trickledown economics & welfare queens

It’s time to talk about President Ronald Reagan’s “trickle-down economics” tax policy, which has been described as the most enduring failed policy idea in American politics. And that leads into Reagan’s narrative of “the welfare queen,” the undeserving women who are freeloading off of the American taxpayers, AND THAT feeds into the bigger story of people living in poverty who don’t want to work. What a creep.
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What a Creep episodes on Reagan

  • Part one: Reagan and his mental health policies
  • Part two: Reagan and the AIDS crisis

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