Search results

No, trickle-down is a thing Republicans have advocated for, but they don't use that term now for how utterly toxic it has become because it's too on-the-nose for "Tax breaks and subsidies for the trillion-dollar mega-corps and their CEOs". It's a very specific kind of tax cut that was once...

How is a tax cut to brackets under $150k trickle-down? It is literally and directly more money in the pocket of the lower classes, because the determinant is that it's a tax cut to them. Are you just compulsively incapable of ever changing your mind in argument or something?

...My statement was that it's trickle-down that doesn't work, rather than tax cuts. With the current state of affairs, there isn't any "infrastructure" to build to improve the economy considerably, only marginal long-term improvements from maintenance put off for too long, leaving workfare...

The function of tax-cuts is to invest in the economy, by way of the public spending their own money as they please, instead of sucking it all up to deal with the state's needs. There's a lot more flow of capital in the civilian sector than the military-industrial complex (it does exist...