Go read Reagans' own diaries. I just finished it. All 600 pages. Written while he was going through this.
Time aftert time after time, the only way the demo congress would assist him with the fuight against USSR and communism was for him to increase domestic spending on bullshit social welfare programs
If we examine incomes, we discover that Reagan's eight years marked a real take-off for inequality, while average incomes stagnated. The income growth of the top once per cent was ten times that of everyone else during his term: 61.5 per cent versus 6.15 per cent. Under JFK/LBJ, the bottom 99 per cent actually did better: gaining 30.9 per cent compared with 26.9 per cent for the top once per cent. And while inequality continued to rise under Clinton, the bottom 99 per cent did more than twice as well as they did under Reagan, gaining 16.7 per cent compared with 56.6 per cent for the wealthiest one per cent.
So much for social welfare programs buddy i never heard it was the rich who used them