How much did the highest tax bracket fall during the Reagan years?
President Reagan’s supply-side tax cuts lowered the top tax rate from 70 percent to 30 percent during the Reagan years.
The 1982 law prohibiting federal support for the contra rebels in Nicaragua, the “Boland Amendment”, was introduced by Massachusetts representative Edward Boland. In 1987, Marine Colonel Oliver North and national security chief John Poindexter were accused of violating the Boland Amendment by diverting funds to the contras from the sale of arms to Iran.
The Elizabethan Age ran for the 45 years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, from 1558 to 1603.
H. L. Mencken said, “Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy”.
After serving in the Spanish-American War, New Jersey nurse Clara Maass volunteered in 1901 to take part in yellow fever experiments in Cuba. Dr. Walter Reed designed the experiments to see whether a mild case of the disease would render people immune. Maass allowed herself to be bitten twice by infected mosquitoes. She developed not…
Pittsburgh was named for William Pitt, even though Pitt never set foot in Pennsylvania. Pitt’s actions as a British war minister during the French and Indian War led to the city’s founding. He committed money and troops to the war; he mapped out a strategy that included the capture of Fort Duquesne, located where the…
One hundred seventy-nine episodes of the TV series “I Love Lucy” were broadcast, from 1951 to 1957, on CBS.