The national debt as a percentage of GDP under Reagan went from 30% to 70%. As he famously said - "deficits don't matter.". The party of "fiscal responsibility" thus continued to do what he had done: give enormous tax breaks to the rich at the expense of future generations and social services. When these undercut social services couldn't help the people they were intended to it was touted by the reaganites as another failure of government and a justification to cut more services for the benefit of a privileged few. The fact that there are even people out there like you that justify such a twisted world view amazes me.

Supply side economics is an idea that has lead this country to the brink of financial ruin, and our children and their children are the ones who will have to pay for it. Justifying it as an economic philosophy is like justifying the flatness of the earth.