Reagan tripled the national debt, had unemployment rates of over 10 % in 1982 and 1983, the average unemployment rate was higher for the Reagan administration than for those of Nixon, Ford and Carter as well as the increase in productivity and job creation was slower.
Furthermore real wages declined during the Regan years, as shown in the graph below, using data from the Bureau of Labour Statistics.
As for "keeping more of your own money", the AMT shifted the tax burden from the rich to the middle class who lost deductions and thus had to pay more taxes.
Add to that the Reagan slashed social programmes, thus making life even harder for those living at the bottom of society. His union-busting severely undermined the only tool working people has ever had for increasing their standards of living.
What a great guy