When people like me are described as nutjobs, people like you should probably be nervous for the nation.
To recap the presidency of Ronald Reagan:
Promise: cut government
Reality: hired 230,000 ADDITIONAL civilian government workers
Promise: control govamet spending
Reality: tripled the national debt in PEACETIME, something nutballs can't get their minds around
Promise: deregulation
Reality: increased corporate welfare more than any president before Junebug Bush
Promise: less government interference
Reality: first two finance bailouts; Wall Street 1987, S&Ls 1988
Promise: lower taxes
Reality: the largest tax increases in history on the middle class (1982, 1988)
And on and on; more false promises than Clinton, another pathological fake. Among the highest compliments in America today is having a nutball call one a "nutjob"; the only higher compliment is having a fake liberal meritocrat call one a teabagger. In other words when the clueless won't associate with one, one's world is self cleansing.
That doesn't fix anything, but it does clear the path.
What were the tax rates before and after Reagan idiot? Youre a joke, total government spending went up because? Reagan couldn't get all his spending cuts as has already been pointed out earlier. The increase in defense spending was well worth it as the Soviet Union lost the cold war because of it