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Bernie Sanders: Trickle down economics is a fraud... (Original Post) Playinghardball Dec 2014 OP
Yup, Sherman A1 Dec 2014 #1
When they first said this rock Dec 2014 #3
Preach it, Bernie. hifiguy Dec 2014 #2
Trickle Down Economics is Larceny. Half-Century Man Dec 2014 #4
Yup! Segami Dec 2014 #5
Exactly !!! - K & R !!! WillyT Dec 2014 #6

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
1. Yup,
Wed Dec 3, 2014, 08:12 PM
Dec 2014

I figured that out in the early 1980's. Reagan's budget guy David Stockman did to and published it in an article in The Atlantic and yet nothing changed.

rock

(13,218 posts)
3. When they first said this
Wed Dec 3, 2014, 08:19 PM
Dec 2014

I looked at them like this. The same look I gave them when they said, "Corporations are people, or "Fetuses are babies," or "Money is free speech." I'm always cautious around people that act like they have escaped from an insane asylum.

Half-Century Man

(5,279 posts)
4. Trickle Down Economics is Larceny.
Wed Dec 3, 2014, 09:01 PM
Dec 2014

Trickle down economics is class warfare.
Trickle down economics is an affront to actual mathematics.
Trickle down economics is for the single purpose of concentrating power into the hands of the fewest people as possible.
Trickle down economics is the cancer that is consuming our country.

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