Based on numbers I have seen economists sharing in order to have the same purchasing power my parents did in 1983 making around $35K I would need $165K. If I wanted their purchasing power in 1990 the number jumps to $246K. That in a nutshell explains our current politics. The younger generations are under... blog.stevepbrady.me

@stevepbrady Not sure if that’s a good solution… just incentivizes corporations to move overseas, doesn’t it?

@stevepbrady Re-electing Reagan was the turning point.

@mjkaul Fair point! Something has to give somewhere though.

@pratik Even going back to Reagan would be a start. Currently it's 21%, it was in the upper 30's in the 1980s.

@stevepbrady I mean, it set the precedent. Reagan won 49 states in 1984. That dragged the Democrats to the right and let to the “end of big government era”.

@pratik Point taken