Showing posts with label Trickle Down Economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trickle Down Economics. Show all posts

Monday, October 21, 2024

Trump's Tax Plan Was Harmful, Don't Accept Any New One

"The verdict is in: Trump’s tax scam was trickle-down economics on steroids."

Click the link below for a video from Robert Reich exposing Trump's economics:

Trump’s Tax Scam: Why Nothing Trickled Down

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

The "Cowboy Myth" Of Rugged Individualism Destroyed

"I write a lot about how the Biden-Harris administration is working to restore the principles of the period between 1933 and 1981, when members of both political parties widely shared the belief that the government should regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, promote infrastructure, and protect civil rights. And I write about how that so-called liberal consensus broke down as extremists used the Reconstruction-era image of the American cowboy—who, according to myth, wanted nothing from the government but to be left alone—to stand against what they insisted was creeping socialism that stole tax dollars from hardworking white men in order to give handouts to lazy minorities and women.

"But five major stories over the past several days made me realize that I’ve never written about how Trump and his loyalists have distorted the cowboy image until it has become a poisonous caricature of the values its recent defenders have claimed to champion."

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

"Trickle-Down" Economics: A Major Feature Of Republicanism Once Again Debunked

"New research examines the history of Republican tax cuts and the results will chill you to the bone. Who wins vs. who loses. the working class or the billionaires... "

Click on the link below for a video supporting the fact that Republicans have to be rejected at all levels of government. Vote wisely in 2024:

Scientists Examined 50 Years Of Tax Cuts For The Rich - Their Shocking Conclusion

This graph begins just before Reagan started the Republican attack on all but the 1%
(Note: this ends in 2007. It is much worse after Trump left office)

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

The Truth About "Taxing The Rich"

 Robert Reich, economics professor, former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, and with experience under both Republican and Democratic administrations, is my go-to guy on economics. The video linked to below clarifies the wide gap between progressives and conservatives regarding economic truth:

12 Myths About Taxing the Rich

Thursday, May 12, 2016

"Trickle Down Economics" Is A Failure - Period

Economics is called the "Dismal Science" for a reason:  there are many interacting social and political forces combined with biased research data.  However, just as with tobacco and climate change, good research is now coming in on "Trickle down economics."

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SCIENCE JUSTIFIES ITSELF

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