This is the Tom Hartman program.

The word is in about the response to Joe Biden's speech.

We have hit a turning point.

This is the end of the era of Reagan.

You know, I may be wrong, but I really believe that a couple of years from now we're going

to look back on this week and say, this was the week that everything changed.

This was the week that things actually turned.

And the fact that an, you know, kind of an old line quote, moderate Democrat like Joe

Biden has taken these very progressive positions and is enthusiastically promoting them.

Tells me that the entire party is on the verge of major change or has already experienced

major change.

We now have an opportunity, I think.

Now that Biden has essentially declared war on Reaganism and the whole Reagan idea

that government is some awful remote evil force that we all should be afraid of and hate

when Joe Biden came out and said, no, no, the government is us, it's we the people.

So what do we do with that?

Well, I'd like to start out by suggesting that we should roll back Reagan's tax increases

on the middle class.

Now, you've heard me many times say I think that we should roll back the Reagan tax cuts.

Of course, Reagan tripled the national budget simply by cutting taxes on very, very wealthy

people.

But most people don't realize is that on 11 different occasions, Reagan raised taxes

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