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Best we can do is cut taxes on the rich and hope it trickles down.
by akmarinov 5y ago
Best we can do is cut taxes on the rich and hope it trickles down.
- aaron-santos 5y agoWe are incredibly creative and ingenious people. That's not "the best we can do". Why hope that a solution being discussed over on hundred years ago[1] will spontaneously start working? Identify who stands to benefit from those solutions, how it divides the the populace, and find a better solution. Self-defeatism is a mind killer. [1] William Jennings Bryan described the concept using the metaphor of a "leak" in his Cross of Gold speech
- anigbrowl 5y agoI think you need to read the grandparent comment as a statement on what's wrong with society rather than an endorsement of the status quo.
- aaron-santos 5y agoThank you for pointing this out. I read GP in earnest. Your comment helped me re-evaluate that.