What did modern conservatives in the 1980s want to reduce?
a. welfare spending
b. oil consumption
c. defense spending
d. taxes on the middle class

B) I am just guessing, but after Jimmy Carter's administration we started making smaller cars, but it was still an issue. Since the "Star Wars" program was used as a ploy to end communism, defense spending actually went down. Republicans do not like welfare. The only other issues, republicans had was taxes. However, interest rates were at the highest during the Regan years.

Numerous wars and invasions induced the trade in Western Europe to decline severely.