HEY! Did anyone catch Thomas Sowell on C-Span's Q&A tonight? [View All]

[Montauk6]

First off, the guy looks GREAT for 75 years old.

OK, so now I see why these conservative go on C-Span so often; it's not that the channel is necessarily biased toward their view (though I'm sure it's been argued otherwise); it's that it MUST be policy (I'm assuming) that the interviewer refrains from clarifying follow-up questions.

So, I forget the original question but Sowell was recounting how he received a lot of nasty letters taking him to task for denying trickle-down. According to him, there's no documentation supporting the existence of trickle down economics, at least none forwarded by any Goopers.

OK, let's think about the ramifications here, shall we?

If Sowell's curious position is widely shared amongst his brethren on the right, does this not blow the entire cover for upward redistribution of wealth? After all, isn't this preferred ratiocination? I know, when I was "in the life," I bought into it schook, whine and stinker.

(me in the 80s): "It's BRILLIANT, what OTHER incentive would rich folks and corporations have for keeping the economy afloat. MORE TAX CUTS, MORE LOAN/INVESTMENT GUARANTEES!!! They'll use that windfall to help the poor in the private sector because THE GOVERNMENT CAN'T DO JACK!" and so on (oh, I was a true believer, all right)

But what have you folks heard on this; the notion that trickle-down economics is a figment of the left's imagination?

I think the notion is right-wing think tank mule muffins m'self.