Franklin Roosevelt's economic plans were to help the people by giving them things such as social security, lowering poverty rates, increasing wages and similar, while Ronald Regan's plan was to reduce tax rates so as to increase production and the overall wealth of the people. From this we might conclude that while Roosevelt wanted to help prevent poverty and help the people by through direct means, Regan wanted to help people by helping their employers who would in turn help their employees due to accumulated wealth.