They spent those 50 years convincing half the voting population that evidence doesn’t matter, unfortunately.
Public school funding can’t be used to fuel the military industrial complex.
Oh no … it did work … it worked spectacularly … for the top wealthiest people in the world
They figured out that they could cut the amount of taxes they had to pay, collect even more wealth for themselves and convince everyone around them and all the poor people out there like you and me that it was all perfectly acceptable, and sensible and that we should all keep electing government officials to keep that system going while we all paid for it. The wealthiest figured out how they could keep their money and make us all pay for it. And they did it for 50 years. And they’re still doing it.
I think it worked fantastic … for them.
We just need to be more patient and tax-cut the wealthy even harder. Then it’ll properly start to trickle. Just a little longer
I agree … but the problem is … it took 50 years for us to get to this point and it will probably take 50 years or longer to get it back to a manageable level again. That is, if we take 50 years of consistently pushing back against the wealthy in the same way that the wealthy have been pressing the poor for the past 50 years.
How about we try some trickle up economics for a while? That’s where you give money to people who actually need it, and let businesses compete for them as customers, and the revenue will trickle up to successful companies.
Might as well, right?
The biggest criticism is hilarious. They say poor people don’t use the money responsibly. It just passes right through their hands. They neglect to mention that’s because they’re buying needed goods and services and that money trickles up far more reliably than money trickles down.
It just passes right through their hands
Plus a general illiteracy for economics where that should be the goal because the economy grows with money spent, not money saved
Yeah, no shit…
