He did take the top rate from 70% to 30% and gave an across the board 30% tax cut for all income taxpayers. Also, he had the longest peace time economic recovery in American history.
And he did it eighteen months. Obama has been in office three years and the unemployment rate is?
Employment was 31% higher under George Bush.
This is why folks aren't paying off student loans as fast as they imagine they should.
When you have 20% of your prime working age population UNEMPLOYED and even more UNDEREMPLOYED there's a chance somebody will sell a lot of special arm bands, guns and ammo!