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Courtesy Flush

(4,558 posts) Mon Dec 16, 2013, 09:51 PM Dec 2013

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When was the last time you heard conservatives talk about trickle down

Seems to me they've admitted they were wrong about it. Not in so many words, but their support for this theory seems to have disappeared.

The whole WalMart/McDonald's thing seems to hit this message home. If you can stand for profitable corporations paying starvation wages, then you can't also believe in trickle down.

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When was the last time you heard conservatives talk about trickle down (Original Post) Courtesy Flush Dec 2013 OP

Whenever one mentions it...I show them this graph and ask where the Trickle starts... VanillaRhapsody Dec 2013 #1

They would love to shove it down our throats, ala Pinochet. Kingofalldems Dec 2013 #2

it is just getting more ingrained Enrique Dec 2013 #3

ALEC is VERY involved in "Supply Side Economics" FreakinDJ Dec 2013 #4

They still believe it; they peddle the same crap as a "job creators" meme now. pinboy3niner Dec 2013 #5

VanillaRhapsody

(21,115 posts)

1. Whenever one mentions it...I show them this graph and ask where the Trickle starts...

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Mon Dec 16, 2013, 09:53 PM

Dec 2013

Kingofalldems

(38,459 posts)

2. They would love to shove it down our throats, ala Pinochet.

Reply to Courtesy Flush (Original post)

Mon Dec 16, 2013, 09:53 PM

Dec 2013

Enrique

(27,461 posts)

3. it is just getting more ingrained

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Mon Dec 16, 2013, 09:57 PM

Dec 2013

I think what we're hearing less of is the challenges to trickle down.

FreakinDJ

(17,644 posts)

4. ALEC is VERY involved in "Supply Side Economics"

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Mon Dec 16, 2013, 10:20 PM

Dec 2013

which is the same old wine in a new bottle

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

5. They still believe it; they peddle the same crap as a "job creators" meme now.

Reply to Courtesy Flush (Original post)

Mon Dec 16, 2013, 10:48 PM

Dec 2013

As FreakinDJ observed, it's the same old wine in a new bottle.

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