He worked in the Reagan admin but I wouldn’t credit him in that way. That is puffery on his part. Reagan and art later and Milton Friedman are the architects....
He has gone off the rails
“Puffery on his part”? So, somehow in your mind he invented the awards that both Reagan and the French granted him? That’s a good trick.
It’s obvious that recent economic history isn’t your strong suit. If you had followed the development of supply side arguments for tax reform that began in the 1970s you wouldn’t post such nonsense. Roberts was a major player in that debate and those who do know that history are well aware of that fact. And it wasn’t just Republicans in the House influenced by Roberts and his crew, it included Democrat Senators Russell Long and Lloyd Bentson, and it resulted in the major capital gains tax reduction signed by Jimmy Carter in 1978.
I assume that ‘art later’ is simply a misprint for Art Laffer. If so it’s especially ironic that you would list Laffer as an architect of Reagan’s program considering that he never worked for the Reagan administration while Roberts did, and when it comes to self-puffery no one in the world of economics comes close to Art Laffer.