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PlanetBev

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6. I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you...

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Sun Dec 20, 2020, 04:00 AM

Dec 2020

That trickle-down economics is the biggest con ever perpetrated on the American people. There’s a reason I couldn’t sleep for two weeks after Ronnie Raygun was elected.

The only thing that rolls downhill is shit.

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50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says [View all] tenderfoot Dec 2020 OP

Duh. iemitsu Dec 2020 #1

As we build back better, listening to scientists is important, and that includes economists. Beartracks Dec 2020 #2

Shocking!! intrepidity Dec 2020 #3

GASP! TlalocW Dec 2020 #4

+ 1,000 nt Phoenix61 Dec 2020 #11

An analcyst discovers that trickle down favored rich making them richer sprinkleeninow Dec 2020 #5

I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you... PlanetBev Dec 2020 #6

It's actually why with the 2018 tax cuts kurtcagle Dec 2020 #7

Pope Francis summed it up well Fortinbras Armstrong Dec 2020 #8

Greed is insatiable. nt Sophiegirl Dec 2020 #10

I remember watching president bonzo explain trickle down on the tv. Canoe52 Dec 2020 #9

And the rich used their windfall gains to capture Captain Zero Dec 2020 #12

From the Journal of No Shit ProfessorPlum Dec 2020 #13

"Voodoo Economics" is what GHW Bush called when he was running against Reagan ProfessorPlum Dec 2020 #14