But the short of it is that the Reagan policy did not work.

People can understand what group in this country has most of the benefits of the Reagan economic policies: not the middle class.

The Reagan fiscal policy was "an intellectual error of the first magnitude."

But the 10-point list of promises made today differed with the Reagan policies in one important respect.

The Republicans said their study used 1982 as a base year because that was when the Reagan policies took effect.

"We concluded that the Reagan policies significantly contributed" to this trend, she said.

This implies that Reagan policy has stopped the course of history in these nations.

The rich, made richer by Reagan policies, saved and invested less, not more.

By then, a majority of Americans opposed the Reagan policy, according to opinion polls.

If made law, these measures could set back Reagan deregulatory policy for several years.