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Here at the Voice we are wary of political endorsements because our track record hasn’t exactly been stellar. Case in point: 1984, when Walter Mondale was challenging President Ronald Reagan’s re-election bid.
In the October 30, 1984, issue, we gave Mondale an earnest, accurate — and in a more just world, what should’ve been successful — blessing. Reagan’s “supply-side” tax cuts for the rich (or “voodoo economics,” in a prescient observation from the Gipper’s own vice president) were already comforting the wealthiest and afflicting generations to come with an ever-increasing national debt. Indeed, the endorsement’s exposé of Reagan’s policies reveals
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