You have that exactly backwards. Liberals are all in on trickle up. Start by taking care — proper and sufficient salaries, guaranteed health care, housing and education rising no faster than salaries, safe and healthy working conditions, along with a serious safety net and Social Security — and the benefits will indeed trickle up. To paraphrase a Danish aphorism, then few will have TOO much, but even fewer will have too little.
If you’ve taken any of the bailout money, you’re a socialist. America was the strongest in the 1950’s economically. Jobs were plentiful, college was affordable and the progressive tax rate was there to help pay down the war and provide for the college, better education in public schools and getting in Interstate started.Like @kingdismond69, Reaganmonics destroyed the working class. The wealth was not this disproportionate. Now it’s welcome to the United States of Amazon.
You have it backwards. Trickle down is a conservative idea.
Reagan started it with Reagonomics when he gave the biggest tax cuts to the wealthy and expected the excess wealth to “trickle down” to the poor. He didn’t factor in the mindset of the wealthy and the phrase “Greed is good”.
What people really do not realize that all that trickle down just results in higher costs which, trickles back up to those that make the policies and rules and have their hands in business profits. Look at Al Gore the biggest carbon consumer person having 5% stake in the world’s cap-and-trade market that is about a $10 trillion business. He is in the position to make $50 billion a year plus due to his trickle down, green platform. And the people have to pay it all!
kingdiamond69 about 4 years ago
Trickle down economics the biggest scam ever perpetrated against the American tax payer the rich get rich and the poor get screwed .
cdward about 4 years ago
You have that exactly backwards. Liberals are all in on trickle up. Start by taking care — proper and sufficient salaries, guaranteed health care, housing and education rising no faster than salaries, safe and healthy working conditions, along with a serious safety net and Social Security — and the benefits will indeed trickle up. To paraphrase a Danish aphorism, then few will have TOO much, but even fewer will have too little.
JoeStoppinghem Premium Member about 4 years ago
If you’ve taken any of the bailout money, you’re a socialist. America was the strongest in the 1950’s economically. Jobs were plentiful, college was affordable and the progressive tax rate was there to help pay down the war and provide for the college, better education in public schools and getting in Interstate started.Like @kingdismond69, Reaganmonics destroyed the working class. The wealth was not this disproportionate. Now it’s welcome to the United States of Amazon.
Dewey Premium Member about 4 years ago
You have it backwards. Trickle down is a conservative idea.
Reagan started it with Reagonomics when he gave the biggest tax cuts to the wealthy and expected the excess wealth to “trickle down” to the poor. He didn’t factor in the mindset of the wealthy and the phrase “Greed is good”.
mouse2 Premium Member about 4 years ago
This is conservative problem, not a liberal problem. The conservative republicans are the ones obsessed with trickle down. Get it right!
redderek Premium Member about 4 years ago
What people really do not realize that all that trickle down just results in higher costs which, trickles back up to those that make the policies and rules and have their hands in business profits. Look at Al Gore the biggest carbon consumer person having 5% stake in the world’s cap-and-trade market that is about a $10 trillion business. He is in the position to make $50 billion a year plus due to his trickle down, green platform. And the people have to pay it all!
the lost wizard about 4 years ago
A conservative is just a liberal with a stock portfolio.
CalLadyQED about 4 years ago
Trickle down is hardly liberal