History

Hartmann Report - By 1982 America was agog at the “new ideas” this newly-invented, billionaire-owned GOP was putting forward. They included radical tax cuts for the rich, pollution deregulation, destroying unions, ending Roe v. Wade, and slashing the support services the New Deal and Great Society once offered people (because, Republicans said, feeding, educating, or providing healthcare to people made them “dependent”). Their sales pitch was effective, so we’ve now had 43 years of the so-called Reagan Revolution. It’s time to simply say out loud that it hasn’t worked. How it hasn't worked