Jude Thaddeus Wanniski (June 17, 1936 – August 29, 2005) was an American journalist, conservative commentator, Nation of Islam supporter and political economist.
Early life and education
Wanniski was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, the son of Constance, who worked at an accounting firm, and Michael Wanniski, an itinerant butcher. His father was of Polish descent and his mother was a Scottish immigrant. When he was still very young, his family moved to Brooklyn, where his father became a book binder. His grandfather was a Pennsylvania coal miner and a dedicated Communist who gave his grandson a copy of Das Kapital for his high school graduation.
Career
After college, Wanniski worked as a reporter and columnist in Alaska. From 1961 to 1965 he worked at The Las Vegas Review-Journal as a political columnist, where he taught himself economics as he learned card counting.
"The poor have become fat and happy, the rich impoverished. This is why we are in the fix we are in. Everyone wants to be poor, because it has so many more advantages!"
"the most influential political economist of the last generation."
"has wielded a considerable supply-side stick, which accounts for the administration's aggressive tax cutting."
"Will GWB be the (Herbert) Hoover of his age?"
"The most worrisome aspect of Greenspan's European remarks is that he is in denial, and as long as the most powerful central banker in the world is kidding himself that he knows what he is doing, we all have to fasten our seatbelts."
"The Democratic Party will, one of these days, stop resisting the philosophy that President Kennedy briefly revived for his party. It will have to, if it ever again aspires to be the majority party."
And it all started with a guy named Jude Wanniski, who literally transformed Republican Party politics with a plan that the American mainstream media, astonishingly, continues to ignore ... Jude Wanniski.
Influenced by economists like Arthur Laffer, scholars like Jude Wanniski, and politicians like Congressman Jack Kemp (who had served with Reagan in California), Reagan had become a supply-sider, ...
John explained to LifeSite that volume one of his Neoconned! books has a lengthy interview by Jude Wanniski, a conservative journalist, who details all the falsehoods spread about Iraq and Saddam Hussein.
READ ...Major American cities like St ... Their factotum, Jude Wanniski, even came up with a bizarre new economic theory that included techno-sounding phrases like “trickle down” and “supply side” to justify massive tax cuts for the morbidly rich ... Of course.
Second, Reagan pursued Jude Wanniski’s Two Santas political strategy with gusto. Wanniski, in 1977, had argued that when Republicans held the ... This, Wanniski said, would force Democrats to “shoot Santa”.
PoliticsOpinion... ... Link Copied ... ... In his book, The Right, Matt Continetti notes that the supply-sider journalist Jude Wanniski predicted a Reagan landslide in 1980 “because he is a conservative populist where Goldwater was a conservative elitist.” ... ... .
And it all started with a guy named Jude Wanniski, who literally transformed American politics with a plan that the American mainstream media, astonishingly, continues to ignore ... Jude Wanniski.
The book will be released on June 6. You can order it online now ... I had been very active as Congressman Jack Kemp’s ally in working with Art Laffer, Jude Wanniski, Larry Kudlow, and others in developing what came to be known as supply side economics ... .
—Jude Wanniski, March 6, 1976... And it all started with a guy named Jude Wanniski, who literally transformed American politics with a plan that the American mainstream media, astonishingly, continues to ignore ... the aforementioned Jude Wanniski.
... began decades ago—and "it all started with a guy named Jude Wanniski, who literally transformed American politics with a plan that the American mainstream media, astonishingly, continues to ignore.".
Read the article to learn who Jude Wanniski is ... and by whom...Hopefully this time Democratic politicians and our media will, finally, call the GOP out on Wanniskis and Reagans Two Santa Clauses scam.
... and credit of the United States this way was during Obama’s presidency in 2011 (they almost never do this when a Republican is in the White House, per Jude Wanniski’s “Two Santas” theory of politics).
... and credit of the United States this way was during Obama’s presidency in 2011 (they almost never do this when a Republican is in the White House, per Jude Wanniski’s “Two Santas” theory of politics).
Idaho State Journal
26 May 2023
Idaho State Journal
26 May 2023