{"id":1893,"date":"2012-07-12T08:09:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T08:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/&#038;p=1893"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:41:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:41:42","slug":"tax-cuts-and-the-republicans-reagan-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2012\/07\/12\/tax-cuts-and-the-republicans-reagan-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Cuts and the Republicans&#039; Reagan Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='citation'>\n    <span class='authors'>Monica Prasad, <\/span><span class='link'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org\/sites\/default\/files\/ssn_key_findings_prasad_on_reagan_and_tax_cuts.pdf\">&ldquo;How Ronald Reagan Taught Republicans to Love Tax Cuts,&rdquo; <em>Scholars Strategy Network<\/em>,<\/a><\/span><span class='year'> 2012<\/span><\/div>\n<p>As Democrats and Republicans debate tax cuts yet again, this policy paper provides a bit of historical perspective. &#8220;The Reagan tax cut of 1981 remains the largest tax cut in U.S. history, but its significance is more political than fiscal,&#8221; writes the author. She goes on to outline the tradeoffs between taxes and spending that occur when one or the other is augmented and how voter preferences change as each is highlighted in political messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monica Prasad, &ldquo;How Ronald Reagan Taught Republicans to Love Tax Cuts,&rdquo; Scholars Strategy Network, 2012 As Democrats and Republicans debate tax cuts yet again, this policy paper provides a bit of historical perspective. &#8220;The Reagan tax cut of 1981 remains the largest tax cut in U.S. history, but its significance is more political than fiscal,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,85],"tags":[2580,131,37336],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inequality","category-politics","tag-debt","tag-economy","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8330,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/8330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}