As a result of wide-ranging social programmes and economic regulations under the Democratic Congress with the bi-partisan cooperation of the executive branch, America experienced the height of leftism that surpassed the 1960s or thereafter. Although the top marginal tax rate from the year 1971 to 1980 remained at 70%, a considerably lower figure than 94% from 1944 from 1945 or 91% from 1954 to 1963, and no long-term control on prices had materialised in the 1970s, the US government had allocated the largest share of the federal budget to agencies and departments related to welfare, entitlement, and public services in American history. The EPA, Small Business Administration, other independent agencies, along with the Departments of Education,
