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ProfessorPlum

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14. "Voodoo Economics" is what GHW Bush called when he was running against Reagan

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Sun Dec 20, 2020, 10:10 AM

Dec 2020

in the GOP primary. It's one of his most important additions to our lexicon, not that he didn't climb right on board the bandwagon once this fraud got rolling.

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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