“trickle down” economics is one of the greatest scams of the 20th century. that #CPC cons are still enamoured with this long discredited piece of nonsense tells you everything about their claims of economic intelligence, and what to expect. #cdnpoli #PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
“Supply-side economics — now referred to as Reaganomics — didn’t produce an American investment boom or surging tax receipts; neither did it produce the vaunted “trickle-down” effect. What it did demonstrably do was to explode income inequality.” — Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway
@longword @jan_viergutz The only place that $$ ‘trickles’ to is the pockets of the wealthy
@longword Of course he’s lying. So is every other politician.
@longword We were (and are) hit by a once in a lifetime supply side shock and the “supply side economics” gurus had nothing useful to say.
@longword lol the liberals are literally doing this. OMG don’t you see???
@longword The greatest scam about “trickle down economics” is that no one ever said “wealth will trickle down”. It’s a strawman that exists to ignore the fact that lowering high tax rates led to higher tax revenues than the higher tax rates did