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(22,757 posts)succinctly put!
why have so many been duped?
elevator
(415 posts)and working to make sure that things never change.
Lonestarblue
(10,063 posts)The Trump voters mostly regurgitated the Fox talking points, but one woman was at least honest when she said she supported Trump because her 401k was doing well and thats what she cared about. So long as she personally is taken care of, she doesnt concern herself with the wreckage for the rest of the country or even if theres a country left after Trump.
skydive forever
(445 posts)And her own grandmother died of Covid.
marble falls
(57,204 posts)volstork
(5,403 posts)so fuck you!"
Duppers
(28,127 posts)czarjak
(11,289 posts)More wealth for the wealthy.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)This Halloween I gave all my Halloween candy to the richest kid in the neighborhood.
I'm sure that most of the candy will trickle down to the rest of the kids.
TheRickles
(2,080 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)I imagine they had to wait for school today to hold the candy redistribution event.
ananda
(28,876 posts)All the money goes one way, to the top 1%.
SCantiGOP
(13,873 posts)lifts all yachts
dchill
(38,532 posts)marble falls
(57,204 posts)Upthevibe
(8,071 posts)Yep. That's how is works (or didn't work).
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)But she did know a thing or two about economics, having done her Master's thesis on the formation and dynamics of the North Atlantic Triangle (Canada, UK and US), at Oxford, all on scholarship and bursary. She was a VERY diligent student.
During the Reagan administration, I once asked her what the educational spin on "trickle down" might be. She said that, in all her years at University, at no lecture, seminar or thesis prep, she had ever heard it uttered. She surmised that it was not considered a viable system, and her own examination of the subject had confirmed that.
I realize that some schools must teach it, but not in her experience.
Celerity
(43,497 posts)certian key underpinnings of it (with supply-side theory starting in the 1970's as a rebuttal to deal with the dominant Keynesian model's failure to predict stagflation) came from neoclassical macroeconomics, especially the postulations that came of the the so-called 'Chicago School' (Knight, Simons, Mints, Viner, etc, then onto Milton Friedman, Geirge Stigler, etc etc) starting in 1950's and continuing onward.
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