Week 5 Reagan Paper(History)(Apa)(Uop)

Week 5 Paper

K.M. Kareem

HST/174

Due Date 11/30/15

Frank Byrd

Week 5 Paper

The numerous duties of The President of The United States of America include being a chief legislature. This can be considered one of the most important roles that a president can take on to determine success in that political office. Another metric for determining the success of a United States President is the position of the people that the president served. In American society there are, and have been since inception, different groups of people in groups based on race, economic caste system and other factors. A difference in one group of people being treated better than another group by the government of the United States could be counted as a failure in a presidency. Certain groups being treated better than other groups by the government was a clear fact during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. This, among several other factors, lead to a sub-standard pair of terms in the presidency of The United States of America; Reagan was overrated.

Supply-side economics, along with an economic plan that led that placed important resources where they were not needed, showed that Reagan had ideas for particular groups of people and not the whole. His message of reducing the size of the federal was found to be fundamentally untrue; the size of the federal government increased during Ronald Reagan’s run as president. There were several misgivings in his economic plans and policies. An expensive and unnecessary war on drugs, as it was called, costed America millions of dollars without clear, specific objective or closure during his presidency.

Supply-Side Economics

The tax policies and economic plans of Ronald Reagan have had a strong impact on the tax system of The United States. The Supply-side economics plan effected different groups of people differently based on their financial position and status. A large, sweeping assumption of Reagan’s Supply-side...