Ronald Reagan could have definitely been impeached by the standards used on the governors governors (malfeasance, misfeasance or nonfeasance) mainly because of the many things that he had done during his presidency.There were were reports from Beirut that the Reagan administration approached Iran with an arms for hostage deal but President Ronald Reagan denied it.Days later he did admit that arms had been shipped to Iran to forge a better relationship but denied they were arms for hostages.He negotiated with terrosists!If that does not scream impeachment then I do not know what does.
When he was president he raised taxes 11 times! President Ronald Reagan enacted The Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act which raised taxes by 37.5 billion
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In 1986, the Tax Reform Act lowered the top income tax bracket from 50 percent to 28 percent. To pay for the reductions, however, the legislation closed a number of tax loopholes.
In 1987, Reagan signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act that extended the telephone excise tax and eliminated a real estate tax deduction loophole. When he was governor of California he signed into law the largest tax increase in the history of any state up until then. He almost tripled the federal budget deficit.During his time in office,the debt increased to nearly three trillion dollars.That is almost three times as much debt as the united states had accumulated in the first eighty years of the twentieth century. In 1984 President Ronald Reagan pulled American troops out of lebanoh and deployed and American peace keeping force in Beirut but after 241 united states service memebrs were killed in a bombing ordered by Hezbollah,he ran for the hills. President Ronald Reagan helped to start the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden because he was trying to fight the soviet union and trained and equipped and funded the islamists Mujahideen Fighters in Afghanistan.His plan backfired when they became the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden recruited the top fighters of that