The Federal Government receives finding from taxes coming out of salaries, which is called income tax. In the US especially, taxes contribute to the funding of Medicaid and social security benefits.
Win for taxation policies--loss on reversing social welfare programs.
Reagan was able to reverse taxation and provide breaks for the upper classes to stimulate job growth and wages. However, programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid were so heavily used he was not able to get rid of those programs.
Reagan wanted to return to a country with free trade, laissez-faire policies, and limited government influence in the economy. However, some of the New Deal and Great Society programs had become widely used especially by the ever growing elderly population. Reagan was not able to stop these programs without major repercussions to his elderly base.<span />
I would have to say world war one formed these alliances that lasted into world war two.
