The answer is reducing income taxes and offsetting revenue with import tariffs.
He was right, and he IS right now.
People still slam Pat but then again, they always slam and slander prophets if they can't outright murder them.
Especially economic prophets when the proof a particular prophet was right is overshadowing everything else in the economy. The US always had high tariffs to protect important industries and as long as those tariffs were in place US industry funded both R&D and expansion from their own profits rather than from crippling loans.
Putting MBAs in charge with incentives that encouraged them to play finance and stock games rather than running the company has been the death kneel of the US as an industrial power which sooner or later means the death kneel of the US as a single nation.
JMHo