I am looking for a good article that compares/contrasts the
Kennedy/Johnson tax cuts in 1962-1964 (or just 1964) with the Reagan
tax cuts of 1981.  Were the two tax plans so different?  Did the
Democrat plan give much more to low income consumers? And so on.
What I am trying to argue is that despite the ideological cover, the
two tax cutting programs weren't so different. In fact, some liberals
and Keynesians thought the best way to create growth-boosting deficits
was via expanding public spending (on social programs, parks,
whatever)...rather than tax cuts, whose immediate effects go mostly to
the top.