how many people believe in this trickle down theory Reagan started?

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you gotta be a fool to believe that this actualy works, you think the rich wanna give there money back to the workers? why do you think these ceo's are getting these bonus packages in the hundreds of millions

while the average wage has stayed the same

is that a joke nanlmart do you think these so called non profit organizations can make up the differance in lost american wages i dont think so, the only reason they do donate is for tax write off purposes so they can become even richer

Answer 1

if i get rich i trickle on u

Answer 2

I agree almost completely. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer by and large. However, there are examples of the rich giving to charities and worthy causes, and using their influence for the good as well. Bono, Oprah, Bill Gates and Robert Johnson Foundation, many other foundations.
I still believe the best way to give is to make it a one to one (won to won) proposition. Working w/Habitat for Humanity, buying gifts, food, and similar volunteering. Too many donations sit in coffers or management pockets. Too many containers sit on docks or are taken by militia.
One more thing, money is important. Having it is better than having none. But how much is too much? How much does it take to buy happiness--can it buy happiness or only wanting more? Like the song says: "what we want is only what we want until its ours" then we want more or something else. Fostered by a capitalist economy. Sad.
Reply:But some assistance is better than none. If you are starving, you don't ask about motivation. What's the alternative--to sit and ***** and do nothing, and see only darkness? Not for me.

Answer 3

I think the original use of the trickle down theory was a big government socialist scheme. Where tax dollars would be distributed to the wealthy and trickle down to the rest of the economy.

Its too bad that the party now in power is opposed to the idea of allowing people to keep what they have earned. But I wonder once all the wealth has been "confiscated" from the people who earned it, and "redistributed" to those who didn't then what? I suspect then we will become like the others who have tried to do this. Bureaucratic distributors will have all the power and wealth and everyone else will starve.

Answer 4

How the spoiled fascist dictators insult real Americans! Insects get a trickle if they stand too close to where you are urinating.

Fatcats believe in giving unearned competitive advantages to the fatkittens that oozed out of their trophy wives. This proves that they don't really believe in competition and must have gotten their own pile by cheating, bullying, or luck. Going more deeply than the one-sided perspective the acadummies feed us, I dare to link the Left and Right together and point out that Marx and Engels were bossy, ignorant snobs who lived off inheritances, making them fatkittens themselves and disqualifying them from having anything sincere or relevant to say for our side.

The employees create the value of the investment; the rich are the hired help. Profit is a tax. To show you how untrustworthy Liberals are, why don't they answer the Nazi-Cons' "Tax Freedom Day" with "Profit Freedom Day"? Why don't they ask people the value of what they produce and if their employers' cut of the revenue is a fair tax on that?

Only a Mama's Boy who hates his father for not getting rich and spoiling him can support the oinkonomics of the Little Piggies Who Go to Market. Those anal-retentive boytoys of the rich, the Yuppy Sissies in Suitcoats, sacrifice their personal lives and personalities in their delusion that their CEOs are their father figures. Soon they will learn the hard way when the neo-fascist economy of the Enron Generation and its Taliban version of capitalism collapse like a poorly built outhouse. Can't you hear it creaking?

Answer 5

It's not a theory, it's a tautology. While you're looking up that word, I'll explain that there are only 3 things any person (including the rich) can do with money: spend it, save it, or have it taxed away.

Spending is productive: money spent satisfying true consumer needs is always productive, it increases economic activity, and leads to job creation, leads to the economy organizing itself around satisfying needs that consumers currently have, ans so keeps the economy modern rather than it becoming hidebound and obsolete.

Saving is productive: it increases the stock of capital available, facilitating business investment, which is a GDP component, and which leads to improved productivity.

Taxation on the other hand is the one thing that is often unproductive. Some gov't projects are good investments; but many are not. You never know, because politicians make their spending decisions based on bribes and lobbying and knee-jerk political whims.. The result is a lot of arbitrary spending that represents nothing but waste. The poster child is the Ted Stevens bridge to nowhere, and taken to absolute extremes you have the Soviet Union and it's sweet demise.

Answer 6

Nice try. The term 'trickle down' was invented by liberals. Reagan allowed people to --GASP-- keep their own property. I know that goes against everything you stand for.

ENVY - occurs when a person lacks another’s superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it

When you start using the words 'confiscate' & 'private property' in the same sentence, then you will be speaking the truth about what liberal want to do.
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“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
-Benjamin Franklin
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Answer 7

It is not a theory. Your attemp to color the argument does not change the fact that when tax rates are cut or reduced, there is less of an incentive to find ways to avoid taxes. The result of that is that tax payments to the government go up. When Reagan cut tax rates, the revenue to the government went up. When Bush 1 raised rates, revenue to the government went down. When Clinton cut tax rates, the revenue to the government went up. When Bush 2 cut tax rates, the revenue to the government exploded.

The problem is not with the taxes, it is with the congress who wastes so much of the money they do get.

Answer 8

Read Marx. Maybe then you will understand. The only hope for humanity is world-wide socialist revolution. Expropriate the expropriators. Workers of the world, unite!