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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Tue Dec 26, 2017, 11:21 AM Dec 2017

Trickle Down Economics Very Successful Actually.

Trickle down economics has worked extremely well for the GOP's donors. It has also helped the GOP have all the funding it wants. It has also helped shaped the country in a way that helps them.

If you look at all the wealth that has gone upwards and how many billionaires and millionaires it has created since Reagan it works. Of course you have to have a lot of rubes who keep voting to send their money upward.

It has also worked for countries like China because they gained most of our manufacturing and it has helped them build their military. And it has helped the Russians as well in at least an indirect way.

As for most of the American people "tinkle down" economics has worked for them not so much.

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Trickle Down Economics Very Successful Actually. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Dec 2017 OP
Yep. It works well for the rich. Tobin S. Dec 2017 #1
It's sleight of hand of wealth redistribution in three phases: no_hypocrisy Dec 2017 #2
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