It is too bad most American historians have such depressive mindsets as illustrated by their insistence on devoting far more attention, as measured in pages, to the 1930s, also known as the Great Depression, than to the Roaring Twenties. While much can be learned from each of these sharply contrasting decades, the Thirties is mostly about what not to do.
In contrast, the great thing about the 1920s is that the story is about what to do — an owner’s manual about how to run an economically successful country. So we will leave the 1930s to the Prozac school of historians and focus on what America can learn from the successful federal policies of the 1920s, particularly the approach to taxation.
[Source.](https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/07/31/coolidges_tax_tutorial_149562.html)
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It is too bad most American historians have such depressive mindsets as illustrated by their insistence on devoting far more attention, as measured in pages, to the 1930s, also known as the Great Depression, than to the Roaring Twenties. While much can be learned from each of these sharply contrasting decades, the Thirties is mostly about what not to do.
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In contrast, the great thing about the 1920s is that the story is about what to do — an owner’s manual about how to run an economically successful country. So we will leave the 1930s to the Prozac school of historians and focus on what America can learn from the successful federal policies of the 1920s, particularly the approach to taxation.
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