Trickle down economics was never something an intelligent lifeform needed disproving. It’s so transparently false that it’s practically synonymous with “you’re a moron rube and I plan to profit from that fact”
Fun fact: “trickle-down” or “supply-side” economics used to be called “horse and sparrow” theory, because the poors got to eat the leftovers from the horseshit.
I think it’s a more appropriate name, even though it sounds cuter.
George HW Bush called it “voodoo economics” in the grand tradition of GOP presidential candidates being completely against something during the primaries and then completely for it during the general.
Trickle down economics was never something an intelligent lifeform needed disproving. It’s so transparently false that it’s practically synonymous with “you’re a moron rube and I plan to profit from that fact”
It was always “trickle up” marketed as the opposite.
I’ve heard it said that “trickle down is an euphemism for funnel up”.
Fun fact: “trickle-down” or “supply-side” economics used to be called “horse and sparrow” theory, because the poors got to eat the leftovers from the horseshit.
I think it’s a more appropriate name, even though it sounds cuter.
George HW Bush called it “voodoo economics” in the grand tradition of GOP presidential candidates being completely against something during the primaries and then completely for it during the general.