• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    Trickle down didn’t work in the 1980’s or anytime after that.

    Trickle down did work in the 1940’s, 1950’s, and most of the 1960’s, it just wasn’t called “trickle down” at that time.

    The difference was a punitively high tax rate that nobody actually paid, because they found better ways to spend their excess revenue than simply giving it to Uncle Sam.

    It turns out that when the richest among us are forced to spend instead of lend, the rest of us finally start to earn fair wages.