Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class.
You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.
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Advantages based on birth are baked into social and economic systems. Those with wealth and power want to maintain it for themselves and their family. We need to not only invest in our people to build strength but limit excessive accumulation of wealth and power, which leads to weakness.
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This statement is couched in the language of a system that will NEVER invest in people first no matter which shade of lipstick is or ever has been put on the 16th century pig named capitalism. Until we change to a cooperative system, the same abuses & inequalities will bubble up & down ad nauseum.
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Hello, is it Dr?, Professor Reich. I have read the first bit of Smith's "Wealth of Nations" and isnt his point that people, the manufacturers, that are the wealth of nations? The rest just seems to be about pins.
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If we're being honest, they're not even pretending it's going to trickle down.
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Only one thing truckles down, and it isn’t green, it’s yellow, warm and wet.
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Or so called Trickle Nothing. Every job they create is another pull from the common system funds. They’re less than useless, they’re parasites. Working people can’t afford the rich anymore. It’s either them or us.
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The economy means the stock market and that is doing fine
Both parties use "economy" to dupe you into thinking they give a fuck about anyone that doesn't own a fortune 500 company
A growing capitalist economy correlates with declining material conditions for working people
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True, but they (Americans) don't believe you. They believe that: Trump didn't start an insurrection Trump won the 2020 election Foreign countries pay the Trump's tariffs. Ukraine started the war Trump stopped wars.😆 Trump is a genius. Trump is honest🤣 Trump is not a Paedophile Trump is not a liar🤭
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Indeed; Return to the tax rates prior to Reagan, would help every American & this country immensely: Universal Healthcare = M4ALL; Education: Clean renewable energy infrastructure and storage which would slash monthly Bills to near zero and so much more
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But isn't it also good to invest all our money in Melania Trump's CryptoBucks then just continue waiting for her husband to Make America Great Again?
It seems to be working well so far!
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Absolutely 💯
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Infrastructure! Yes, education and healthcare ARE INFRASTRUCTURE! Market economies perform better when they are built on solid INFRASTRUCTURE.
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Or make all Americans pay for tariffs which is higher taxes on everything. Prices are going up very fast.
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working American's are funding the tax breaks for the rich through these tariffs tariffs also strengthen large corporations, snuffing out mom and pop businesses it's disgusting and wrong
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Didn't happen when Reagan proposed it, won't happen now.
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"trickle down nonsense" Can we get that on the digital screens on Wall Street?
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They can't rule over us if they treat us as important equals.
They have to beat us down and break us, then we can be ruled.
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Do you know what does trickle down? Blood. Sweat. Tears.
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This is what all Democrats can agree on, no matter where they are on the political spectrum.
Economic growth for the middle & lower classes is what we should tun on, because that is what Americans care about.
We can fight other battles later, but this is the one that wins, and that comes first.
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WE need a massive televised national meeting against Trump every week to report on his wrongdoings
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The only thing that trickles down is shit if you dont believe me better ask nancy
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I actually think that trickle-down, as conceptually defined, would actually work. Unfortunately, it is just gaslighting as the ones a the trickling top lied that they would spread the wealth.
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I mean, EVERYONE should know this by now since we’ve lived the proof through so many Republicans administrations. But - on top of that - we haven’t seemed to have learned anything about fascism, either. It’s so frustrating to learn how many ridiculously uneducated Americans there are.
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Trickle-down economics has never worked.
There's no trickle and there's no down.
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Problem is, the GOP knows this, and they don't give a rat's ass...
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Listen, just because it’s been disproven over and over again…
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The only thing trickling down in this regime are the effects of the tariffs on the middle class...before he's done, the trickle will be a tsunami.
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Taxes not returned to the community are a drain on the community: The illegal National Sales Tax ( Tariffs) have a multiplier effect in reducing local economy. for every Tax dollar lost; between 4 & 7 dollars of economic activity is lost to the community: 100 Bil. is 4-700 Billion in lost economy.
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Giving important real-world jobs to unqualified TV personalities and your billionaire friends will cause bankruptcy and destruction. Bankruptcy is still trumpfs only skill.
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It sure hasn't worked for the last 45 YEARS!
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You don't grow it by giving our tax dollars away to war criminals and weapons manufacturers in the trillions to plunder and to perpetrate genocide by proxy either. Speak the whole truth
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Fuck the middle class. Working class is the only class. Anyone like Robert here talking about the middle class is trying to divide us.
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All you do with that nonsense(thanks Reagan), is pad profits, shareholder return and the pockets of the wealthy.
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Trump is doing the opposite and is decimating the middle class.
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And economists ignoring the depreciation of automobiles and other Durable Consumer Goods.
What is the NET Domestic Product?
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Call Reagan’s plan TINKLE DOWN economics.
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Ah, world renowned economist and philosopher speaks - or is it spins - again.
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that lil fact won't keep the oligarchs from trying it for another 50 years, just to make sure.
eff the oligarchy. eff project2025. eff maga. eff trump.
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Again, I thank you for your information, Sir.
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Tax the rich so that more than half of the wealth ends up in the middle class!
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Being able to afford things like… anything really I mean groceries are nuts. Gas just jumped like a mofo.
The only people benefitting from it didn’t have to worry about this shit to begin with other than how to profit from it.
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I think it was a UK Labour MP who said money doesn't 'trickle down', but floods abroad into offshore accounts.
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50 years of nonsense has proven this to be true.
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Indeed!!!
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They could really care less about growing the economy. This is a smash and grab gang
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Woah now. Just because turning the millionaires into billionaires didn't work, doesn't mean turning the billionaires into trillionares will fail!!! Lets give it a try
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AI, robotics... no need for so many people. Hence, quiet slow extermination. Watch, in 20 years, robots will get better care and have more money spent on them for their 'maintenance' than we ever had in healthcare. #countryincrisis #itshappeningfast
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Trickle down has been around since Reagan. No money has ever trickled. Tax the Billionaires and Corporations. Give the money to the Middle Class and you’ll have a robust economy.
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But I thought that’s where the money would come from - by taxing the rich. I have much to learn!
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Trickle down is just the Republican phrase for siphon up.
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Taxing the rich PROPERLY Wouldnt be a trickle, it would be a FLOOD.
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And useful infrastructure, not Louis the fourteenth style golden ballrooms!
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I recall the Ted speaker who explained he only needs one pair of jeans. Not a hundred pairs of jeans. His money in the hands of the many has a lot more economic power.
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Republicans have been saying that same trickle down shit since Reagan, and their constituents are still waiting and still voting for them. Go figure.
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Whisper it - socialism creates wealth for the many, it creates opportunity, it evens inequality - it is good
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Or forcing women to have children, little taxpayers to support the 1%….
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Trickle down was the biggest lie perpetrated on Americans until the "weapons of mass destruction"😡
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It shouldn't be that way but more people are scared to go to the hospital because of incurring a huge debt than because of a health emergency.
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Tax cuts for billionaires don’t “grow” the economy — they just fatten the yachts. Real growth is built bottom-up: healthy people, strong schools, and roads that work. MAGA’s “trickle-down” is just rich-up. Invest in us, not them.
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It’s more like a flood upwards into oligarchs bank accounts. Sucking the wealth out of all of us. I fear for the next generation if this wealth distribution continues. We are all a few peoples slaves, kept poor to ensure compliance by having to slave daily to pay our bills to them.
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This point beats long winded arguments about terminology.
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we have proof that trickle-up works. The Covid checks, give money to the middle class and they dont save it, they spend it making our economy grow. Facts, data, and reality have no place in this version of the USA.
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Maybe after our revolution we can rebuild as a socialist society because when I look at Denmark, Sweden, Norway I think they really know what they are doing! We need a clean slate. Clearly democracy as we have experienced it doesn’t work for 99% of Americans! Our founding fathers fucked it up
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A growing economy also reduces crime. We saw that from 2023 thru 2024.
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Trickle down = DOESN’T WORK!!!
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As I recall, the trickle-down nonsense was accurately described as voodoo economics by Bush. And yet, we continue with voodoo economics in 2025!
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Tav X The rich at progressive rates!
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Nope because most of the richest people inherited their wealth and are also rich because they’re so damn greedy!
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Let the fox watch the henhouse, leaves nothing. I hate to say it; letting DC control spending AND collecting without account (what we do now is NOT account) the people need to be involved in it as well. Set it to put on ballots like states do for bond issues.
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Trickle down theory is like expecting a plant to grow by watering the leaves and leaving the ground bone dry.
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The recipe for survival for any American that isn't a billionaire is a combination of taxation and expropriation. They will imprison or kill anyone that opposes them unless, as a society, we disarm them by removing the excess wealth they use to warp the government to their whim.
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That investment in health care includes the prevention of slow-motion mass disablement by Long Covid through limiting acute Covid via vaccines, clean air & masks.
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I stopped spending money on “staff”! I canceled Amazon Membership! Saving an average of $300 a month. We can get this government by stopping spending money on stuff! And then: Watch the NYSE! Consumption 📉! We can grab them by their… wallets!!!
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@briantylercohen.bsky.social If only Dems had the courage to say this on right-wing media platforms 24/7 like the right has appeared on all medias the past 30+ years. Where is Chuck & Hakeem? Hiding under the picnic tables with their donors? Silent leaders aren't leaders.
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'Consumer surplus makes the world go 'round.'
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government doesn't invest, it spends. as such, it can't "make investments in our people". government just spends money. private individuals make investments. i would have hoped an economist would understand that, yet here we are.
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They.Do.Not.Care.
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The ONLY thing that trickles down is URINE!
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trickle down just means the rich are pissing on us peons
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Biden got it.
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Despite sitting on a massive hoard of gold Smaug did nothing to boost his local economy. Apart from boosting the hobbit tourist industry a little I guess.
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Trump and his regime are only invested with the rich, he is not a president for ALL the people.
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You can't have infinite growth, on a planet with finite resources. The death cult of capitalism, needs to be destroyed. All you want is more of thee same.
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And that's not just a feeling from a great man. Study after study proves that trickle down has never worked. Britain did a fifty year study and found that it has never worked. Studies show a return of 3/4 dollars for federal coffers for every dollars given to people who are not $$ well off. Win Win!
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Robert: "Trickle-down" disappeared 40 years ago. Oh and everyone knew it was bullshit then👽
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Yes, but Trump Republicans aren’t interested in growth. They’re indoctrinated by Evangelical “prosperity gospel”
Get want you, while you can, now.
Republicans are on an outright robbery spree of Americans. They don’t care about next generation or legacy, get rich now & burn it all down.
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They want the economy to collapse and everyone to die, Robert. They are having so much fun burning down the world so they can reign over the ashes they can’t stop. They are too afraid someone will get their fair share.
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Way I see it, money is blood. It has to circulate to survive. It doesn’t matter how much you have if it’s not moving. Investing in healthcare, education, and infrastructure make it move by empowering working people so they can spend. Tax cuts for the rich are blood clots and hardened arteries.
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Growing an economy requires from the bottom up action
Spoiler - they are only interested in top down
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Strong middle class and economic growth are not of any interest to the rich and wealthy. They benefit more from economic decline and cheap labor.
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What they fail to understand is that they don’t own the economy.
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Nancy Pelosi: 246 million. Daryl Issa: 456 million. Donald Trump: 500 million. Are there ANY members of Congress that ARE NOT Multi millionaires? TAX the ostentatiously wealthy. At WHAT POINT, does Pelosi NEED her job, to survive? Inessential wealth is obscene.
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That's how it used to be 35 or so years ago.
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The only people ever served by trickle down economics are those at the very top.
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Please help Hakeem and company write the damn Legislation, please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Robert, what you and your economists must do is
write the Big economic legislation for Hakeem and Chuck S..
clearly the boys are lost in the weeds and have SERO big ideas
which leaves us holding an air-bag going into 2026 elections
Help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Trickled down economics has been mentioned for years and in all that time it's never worked as the way to grow the economy. It's like rich companies trickling down the profits to their workers when times are good by buying them an 8-slice pizza, thinking that will do the trick.
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Reagan tried it, didn’t work for him either.
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A country is only as strong as its citizens.
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"With f47's tariffs, we will pay 18.3% more for food & products while manufacturing is lost (over 100,000 manufacturing jobs lost since f47 became president again), and the top 100 big business CEOs and stockholders are raking in an extra $1.2 trillion in personal income while f47 destroys unions."
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Reagan’s big lie got us here. Because the truth is when the wealthy were taxed they spent MORE money on middle class issues to avoid paying the tax. He eliminated REAL trickle down economics. Now there’s no incentive.
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Joe knew.
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Never have. Never will. The trickle is just rich piss. .
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Proven in the 50's and 60's.
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The UBER RICH get RICHER, the rest of us get SCREWED
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ABSOLUTELY. Trickle-down economics is one of the biggest cons that the rich have ever pulled on ordinary people.
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I didn't know there were any middle class jobs or people left
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. When Democrats get back into power, the first thing they need to do is SAVE AMERICA:
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"Trickle-down economy" means that while the government is proactively shoveling "taxpayer money" into their pockets, the hyper-wealthy are urinating on the less financially fortunate - right?
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it’s all about cruelty and control.
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Canada's Conservatives follow the same dogma as American Republicans, with the same results: our economy tanks whenever they come to power, whilst corporations make record profits.
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Union Strong
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Moreover, that recipe has been proven to work in Europe after WW2
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It’s too late now. Plan B, quick.
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Who said anybody would be interested in a strong middle class. A depression earns the right society much more gold.
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Here's a solution to the dilemma tax the rich, they should be paying their fairshare, especially the top 3%.
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If you want Growth, Tax the Rich so they have to work harder to get richer.
If you give tax cuts to the rich, they get richer without working harder. They pocket the money, & corporations do stock buybacks. No Growth!
You're against helping the poor to force them to work harder, also Tax the Rich!
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The problem is that they don’t care, and they are making sure that they’ll never have to care. This conclusion isn’t cynicism. It’s a diagnosis based on the finding and symptoms of a very sick body politic. Please tell us what we can do in a country no longer under a working Constitution.
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"Economic growth" itself (especially when left undefined) is nonsense. As soon as you advocate for it, for whatever rationale, you're already a capitalism complicit. And capitalism doesn't stop when it suits you.
The common people's wellbeing is the ultimate goal. It doesn't require justification.
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When will they learn?
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Our education system is in jeopardy.
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American Education Must Improve
In the United States, education trends are continually evolving, driven by advancements in technology, shifts in societal needs, and policy changes. As of 2024, several key trends are shaping the e…
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Yes we know that for sure!
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Yep.
Give a rich man more money and he’ll just put it away somewhere it won’t attract tax, ‘cos he’s already got enough to live on.
Give a poor man more money and he’ll go out and spend it on the stuff he’s been deprived of.
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We're on our way to something that will made The Depression of the 1930s look minor.
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Trickle down economics is the fundamental fraud the GOP has been trying to sell for nearly half a century. In order to work, it would require rich people to a) pay taxes; b) pay taxes; and c) pay all their taxes.
This country has made these fµ¢kers rich for so long they think it’s the law.
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40+ years I've been hearing this trickle down bullshit, all the way back when my parents were buying into Reagan's nonsense.
Invest in the infrastructure and destroy the mono-, duo-, and oligopolies and you'll see generational benefits economically.
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Capitalism is destroying the planet. Fuck you for trying to "save" it😤
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Known fucking moron & extreme pedo says..
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"Trickle down" doesn't work. Never did. But in fact "bubble up" does!
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We need to get Rich companies like Facebook and Google and Apple to pay taxes. The rats do not have enough to lift us out of this hole. I don’t know why you people think taxing the rich will work it’s the businesses that can pay for it.
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the rich know this, they don't want a strong economy, they want an oligarchy, they want a return to a modern version of feudalism
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Trickle down failed for Reagan, Bush and Trump. So of course it’s worth trying again. ✊🏻
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Remember: it’s not economic growth we need; it’s what the recipe brings in terms of equality and sufficient well-being we need.
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Put the money in at the bottom and it will circulate and people will thrive. All of the people. Put the money in at the top and if goes out of circulation and people surfer and die needlessly. Why has it become normal to think that people should serve the economy?
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We're just two more tax cuts for the rich away from happiness for all!
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The whole trickle down economy idea is one of the biggest cons ever.
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I think you probably can do both.
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So agree!
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We gonna talk about it some more, or are we gonna be about it?
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The people are the foundation of a nation; without this as the premise, anything else we do is in vain.
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Trickle down is voodoo economics
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It’s what Biden did.
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All you need to know about the rich is they like crooked Adams and Rapey Cuomo more than Mandani
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Yea that trickle doen not working well for amazon warehouse workers. While Bezos had whay? A 3 day wedding.
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Compare this to what Reich tells us. www.thecleanneedeal.org
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Whatever do you mean? I thought people hoarding wealth was the best way for money to move through our economy. 😂
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Build inclusive legacy projects. Lift the people. All the people.
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The Giving Pledge, “where billionaires pledge to give at least half their wealth to charity—remains mostly unfulfilled, with most signatories far wealthier now than when they joined” is proof trickle down is nonsense.
Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth — FORTUNE
The Giving Pledge invites the world’s wealthiest to publicly commit to giving away at least 50% of their wealth. The Institute for Policy Studies has the receipts.
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Every dollar directed to the consumer, to the working family, to those on the bottom, eventually bubbles up to the top, but stimulates the entire economy and enriches everyone's hands it goes through along the way.
Every dollar that goes directly to the top, stays there.
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And UBI for the poor, disabled, and homeless, my dude.
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We can’t grow the American middle class by allowing visas/immigrants. Every immigrant we allow in America results in an American losing their job +/ an American Family becoming homeless. Their culture has none of our virtues. They have a hive mentality, hire each other, block Americans out of jobs
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Let's remember to thank Joe Biden for all the positives of his Presidency. He had an enormous and positive impact on all of the above.
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I absolutely agree we tried this during Reagan years I remember it nothing happened nothing we didn't get more jobs matter of fact jobs were hard to find I know I was looking interest rate was skyrocketed 12% was the lowest you could get our country was in major trouble and it is again
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The grifting trickles down but not the wealth
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You misspelled BULLSHIT.
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Yet they keep doing it, and people keep falling for it. Does nobody remember Ronald Raygun? Trickle down economics didn’t work in the 1980’s, because it’s BULLSHIT.
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When Reagan tried “Trickle Down Economics”, my grandma always called it “Piddled On Economics”. She wasn’t wrong. 🤬
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Trump and MAGA don't want a strong middle class. They want power and control.
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I call it tinkle down.
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It was exactly President Biden's plan to create and carry out such investments.
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A healthy, well-fed workforce is a productive workforce. Earnings should be for a step up … not for sustenance.
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Yeah, they know. They have seen the data for years. But they don't care.
We need a way to revolt and take our country back without getting everyone killed.
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Thank you tax cuts only benefit the billionaires who already have too much
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Any insight into why the trickle-down myth still persists? IIRC, David Stockmen freely admits it was an idea that proved itself false by his failed implementation of it.
Why is it still treated as a valid theory?
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After 40+ years of evidence proving that trickle down is a scam, Republicans are still telling us that it totally works. 🙄
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Prosecute the corrupt rich, distribute their wealth.
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That was never this administration‘s plan. They care nothing for the average American!!
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Real growth comes from investing in the backbone of our society—working people—not giving handouts to the wealthy few. Health care, education, and infrastructure build lasting prosperity.
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I’m old enough to feel like we’ve been fighting this narrative forever🤷♀️ oh wait, we have
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They know this, its all a grift. They are draining the coffers and bribing their accomplices. Not enough rope for all the bastards.
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Yes indeed! It’s been tried before and it’s true now. The trickle down shit has never worked the way they try to make you believe. Ordinary people who believe are simply suckers.
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As proven by Reagan admin.
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Early investments in children, particularly from birth to age 5, yield the greatest return for society. Target investments in quality early childhood development for disadvantaged children. The highest rate of economic returns come from the earliest investments in children. (Heckman Principle).
