Public Advocate salutes the late Ronald Reagan on his 100th birthday.
Ronald Wilson Reagan was pro-life, promoted
traditional values, appointed hundreds of openly Christian
appointees who still serve America today in the courts, at the
state level and in major corporations and in
Congress.
Ronald Reagan was pro-family. He said "The family has always
been the cornerstone of American society. Our families nurture,
preserve, and pass on to each succeeding generation the values we
share and cherish, values that are the foundation of our
freedoms."
Lifesite news website says "Ronald Reagan deserves to be
remembered above all as a pro-life social conservative. He saw the
world through Christian eyes."
Reagan restructured the entire tax system to promote and protect the American family for a generation.
As Robert Stein points out in a long review of current tax
reform ideas, and Public Advocate agrees, Ronald Reagan gave
American families the biggest economic boost in the past 50 years
with his tax reforms.
Stein says in part ".... unlike Reagan's immensely
popular initiative, the (current ) reformers' campaign has
gained little traction with the public - and has not been enacted
even in times of Republican dominance in
Washington......
At the core of this failure has been a misreading of
Reagan's success. Too often, advocates of comprehensive tax reform
have focused on the particular means of Reagan's plan - the
lowering of marginal income-tax rates - rather than on its more
general ends: correcting economic distortions caused by
government policy, lightening the tax burden on American families,
and encouraging more work and
investment...........
In 1980, Ronald Reagan made the Kemp-Roth tax plan -
including a 30% cut in all federal income-tax rates - the
centerpiece of his economic agenda. Reagan's political success that
year, and the strength and length of the economic expansions of the
1980s and '90s, were due largely to this one
decision...........