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applegrove

(118,759 posts)
Thu Jan 9, 2014, 10:15 PM Jan 2014

Don't believe your lying eyes meme. Look at this article. What bullshit. Because

no specific policy paper was written with trickle down in the title it was never a reality? That is what sociopaths do. Force something on people and then when called on it deny their actions, often setting the stage for a new, and completely different, narrative. See the article here:


Thomas Sowell commentary: Trickle-down economics is a figment of liberal imaginations


by Tomas Sowell at the Columbus Dispatch

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While there have been all too many lies told in politics, most have some little tiny fraction of truth in them, to make them seem plausible. But the “trickle-down” lie is 100 percent lie.

It should win the contest both because of its purity — no contaminating speck of truth — and because of how many people have repeated it over the years, without any evidence being asked for or given.

Years ago, this column challenged anybody to quote any economist outside of an insane asylum who had ever advocated this “trickle-down” theory. Some readers said that somebody said that somebody else had advocated a “trickle-down” policy. But they could never name that somebody else and quote them.

Mayor de Blasio is by no means the first politician to denounce this non-existent theory. Back in 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama attacked what he called “an economic philosophy” which “says we should give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else.”




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Don't believe your lying eyes meme. Look at this article. What bullshit. Because (Original Post) applegrove Jan 2014 OP
It is the pejorative description of supply-side neo-liberal Reaganomics. Warren Stupidity Jan 2014 #1
Wasn't "voodoo economics" another description? arcane1 Jan 2014 #2
Yes, and that also is not an actual economic theory, unless one is a dishonest shit like sowell Warren Stupidity Jan 2014 #3
Definitely more of a scheme than a theory. arcane1 Jan 2014 #4
 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
1. It is the pejorative description of supply-side neo-liberal Reaganomics.
Thu Jan 9, 2014, 10:22 PM
Jan 2014

And sowell is a clown, not literally of course, just figuratively, like trickle-down.

 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
3. Yes, and that also is not an actual economic theory, unless one is a dishonest shit like sowell
Thu Jan 9, 2014, 10:30 PM
Jan 2014

trying to make a point that only pre-disposed idiots would believe.

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