Fact-check: “Reagan policies broke US tax brackets.”
Verdict: Misleading (72% confidence)
Reagan's two major tax laws — ERTA 1981 and the Tax Reform Act of 1986 — did dramatically restructure federal income tax brackets: they cut the top marginal rate from 70% to 28%, collapsed 14+ brackets down to effectively two by 1988, and added inflation indexing starting in 1985. Whether that constitutes 'breaking' brackets is a loaded characterization; the documented record shows deliberate, structural legislative reform — not an accidental collapse — and the changes were contested even at th…
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