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Isn't it great how, once the idiocy of trickle-down has become widely known, one can continue pushing the same ideas by merely calling it something else? Such
by romwell 5y ago
Isn't it great how, once the idiocy of trickle-down has become widely known, one can continue pushing the same ideas by merely calling it something else?
Such a neat trick!
We are not talking about which phrase the Right uses today. The idea of trickle-down is what our current taxes are based on. There's no need to call it anything; obstructionism suffices
- Wolfenstein98k 5y agoI am not American, but I assume you are. Your taxes are tremendously progressive. In most other developed countries they're much less progressive. Your tax and transfer system when combined is much kinder to the poor / harsher on the rich than basically any comparable country. https://mobile.twitter.com/amorygethin/status/1459159978342813702 https://mobile.twitter.com/amorygethin/status/14591599783428...
- cloverich 5y agoI'm not well read, but didn't the latest taxes pushed by the right benefit the middle class disproportionately? Wouldn't trickle down imply there should be no tax breaks at all for hte middle class, and instead the entirety of those breaks should go to the investment class? https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/measuring-the-effects-of-the-republicans-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-on-personal-income-taxes https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publication... (I am assuming this is a right biased publication, again not well read, genuinely curious because it seems to line up with those middle class I know who were Trump supporters -- they regularly cite their lower taxes).