- Tax indexing: Tying tax rates to the inflation index put an end to bracket creep
- Oil deregulation: Ending price ceilings on domestic oil sparked a revival of the US oil industry.
- Airline deregulation: Made air travel affordable for everyone, not just the rich
- Revamped income bracketing, forever doing away with the 70% tax bracket
- Won the Cold War
- Gave us the Peace Dividend which we still live under, with defense spending half of what it was during the 80s.
- Effectively scrapped the ABM treaty by initiating SDI.
- Brought down the Berlin Wall
- Destroyed the US tuna seine industry.
- Gave away the best US fishing grounds on both coast to the Canadians.
- Instrumental in giving US commercial salmon fisheries to the Tribes without any compensation to Non-Indian salmon fishermen.
- Helped destroy the International Pacific Sockeye Commission which had rebuild the Frazer river sockeye [ using funds from US sockeye fishermen donated monies ] from the disastrous slide in 1912 from 1000s of fish remaining to 60,000,000 by the time he was President.
