Did the economy "trickle down" more in the 80s or the 90s?

Answer 1

Definitely, the 80s, in the 90's it only tricked into republicans pockets.

Answer 2

Depends on what you mean. The 'trickle down' effect expected from policy changes in the 80s could be argued to have manifested in the 90s. In contrast, today, any 'trickles' being set up are going to flow overseas - because that's where the investment and job growth is going on.

Answer 3

Do you mean trickle on instead of trickle down?

Republicans always run up bigger deficits than Democrats.

I don't know why Republicans get bent out of shape about little old ladies on welfare and couldn't care less about projects like the Apache Helicopter which costs 24 BILLION dollars and still doesn't work.

Answer 4

trickle down is constantly happening...but in and of itself it is a complete failure for the middle class...as we recovered from the oil recession in the 70's they implimented higher taxes on the middle class and lower taxes on the upper class which in turn spured investment and the economy picked up. the problem is trickle down...and investment spurring in general is speculative and is based on faith rather than quality of a company...the middle class (consumers) pick out quality companies with their purchasing power...if they only knew what trickle down does...how it allocates $ so that it's flowing like a river for the elites...and all the middleclass gets is a few drops...would you water a tree at the very top?

Answer 5

The economic boom of the 90's was created by the tax breaks instituted in the 80's and also historic lows in unemployment created by the dot com boom. The late 80's showed that Reaganomics was working and this continued into the 90's. when the rich have more discretionary income to spend this creates more jobs. Also consider if you are a millionaire the amount of taxes you pay are generally higher than say someone who maks 50k . The nineties boom was created by changes in the 80's.

Answer 6

Both the 1980s and 1990s - - - - the comparison is the last 25 years versus the previous 25 years.

And if you compare absolute to absolute there is only one conclusion.

The ONLY way to support the argument that most people are worse off now is to refer to everything RELATIVE to the top. As in, none of the rest of our gains are as great as Bill Gates' gains, so that somehow means we "fell behind" - even though we're all better off relative to where we were 25 years ago.

Answer 7

The economy is not in recession...it is better than it has ever been since the Clinton administration....!!!!! Come to think of it, they (the clintons) might be envious of that fact...Thanks to Bill Gates, computer mogul, economy is skyrocketing!
The poverty in this country is due to alcoholism and drug abusers. They clearly mess up our society. That's just my opinion....which I am entitled to. Don't blame that on the government! For goodness sake.

Answer 8

i believe it was the 80's.. because my econ class last year i believe my professor said that the 90's had a really long string of increases in the economy

Answer 9

Only the liberals were trickled on because they like the golden showers.

Answer 10

80's. This is a fact.