"It just doesn't seem right for a wage earner carrying his tuna fish sandwich to work to subsidize exorbitant business lunches at luxury restaurants," Reagan said.
Now, in all honesty I myself read Reagan as primarily a rising-tide-lifts-all-boats type of person. That is, in favor of greater business investment, in particular keeping down the percent of income taxes on the upper brackets.
But Reagan did have an economically populist strain.
Let's say during the 1979 energy crisis, that populist strain plays out more. Please paint a picture, and I'd ask mainly optimistically, of how you see some of this working out.