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RiverLover

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3. Conservatives favor trickle-down, not necessarily just Republicans

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Tue Jan 20, 2015, 11:02 AM

Jan 2015

Third Way Democrats support trickle-down. Maybe because they're fronting for the RW.

“The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America’s middle class,” Warren said in her fiery keynote address to an AFL-CIO conference on raising wages.

“Pretty much the whole Republican Party, and if we’re going to be honest, too many Democrats, are overly cozy with the financial industry and make decisions that benefit the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans while leaving others to struggle, she said....

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/elizabeth-warren-criticism-trickle-down-economics-114032.html

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If "trickle down" really worked, we'd be awash in good jobs. [View all] Scuba Jan 2015 OP

Hee hee . . . instead, we're awash in . . . . HughBeaumont Jan 2015 #1

It's a fallacy oldlib2 Jan 2015 #2

Conservatives favor trickle-down, not necessarily just Republicans RiverLover Jan 2015 #3

Yeah, like twenty five years ago that should have happened! 2naSalit Jan 2015 #4

they admitted this. in 1981 MisterP Jan 2015 #5