• Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    False.

    Trickle down was a REBRAND. It used to be called “Horse and Sparrow economics.”

    The literal idea being that horses get to eat whole grains, and sparrows peck their meals from horseshit.

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      It’s true that Reagan’s Trickle-Down was a revival of Harding’s Horse & Sparrow, but that doesn’t affect my point.

      We’ve proven it doesn’t work. The correct solution is to redistribute and try a different method to check capitalism.

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        Oh for sure. I wasn’t advocating for it!

        But it does change the point in your messaging. To call it “an experiment” gives it a quality of transience, whereas establishing the actual history of the methodology allows people to understand the scope and magnitude of how long and deeply the masses have been bamboozled.

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          That’s fair.

          Regardless, Trump’s solution of bringing back Reagan’s first economic plan, Voodoo Economics, will drive inequality even faster than Trickle-Down.