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The Real Cost Of America’s Dream

David Todd McCarty
3 min readJun 25, 2021

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Ever since FDR’s new deal reinvented the role of government in American society, the political right in America has been attempting to reverse this concept by focusing on taxes, specifically on cutting taxes and shrinking the role and size of government.

Since Ronald Reagan, Republicans have been infatuated with the idea of trickle down economics, that a free market will…

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David Todd McCarty

A cranky romantic searching for hope and humor. I tell stories. Most of them are true. I’m not at all interested in your outrage, but I do feel your pain.