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Trickle-Down Legacy: Reagan Policies Make Inequality Structural Feature

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By mid-Reagan presidency, the structural mechanisms of permanent upward wealth redistribution are firmly established: union-busting destroys worker bargaining power, tax policy rewards capital over labor, financial deregulation enables speculation and asset stripping, and weakened antitrust …

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