What is Trickle Down Economics?


1.

A Failed economic policy that asserts that if you give tax cuts to the rich the profits will trickle down to the lower classes.

Time has shown that this Regan policy is nothing more then a scam to give the rich a Free Ride in society

Trickle down economics don't trickle down on me! Where's my money and my job? They been outsourced by some elitist rich snob.

See reganomics, free republic, supply side economics

2.

n. The most absurd economic theory that ever existed. It includes giving the rich large sums of money. Accordingly, the wealthy will then hoarde the money into banks and there will therefore, be less money in circulation.

Herbert Hooverused trickle down economics, taking money from the poor and giving it to the wealthy. He is responsible for the Great Depression.

3.

A government ecomomic plan in which taxes are lowered on the wealthy so that they have incentives to do things with the extra money they would have would lead it to 'trickle down' to the middle and lower classes.

For example, the wealthy might use the extra money to expand their businesses or buy more shares in the stock market, thus expanding the economy and providing more jobs for those in the middle and lower classes.

The wealthy might also spend the extra money on more goods and services, thus providing the middle and lower classes with more work.

Probably the most significant stream of money trickling down is from the extra money that the wealthy put in banks. Because there is more money in banks, there is more money for the middle and lower classes to borrow for buying houses and starting and expanding businesses.

Many liberals like to attack trickle down economics as an unfair benefit to the wealthy. Their mistake is that they ignore the idea of the "invisible hand" that is implicitly behind the idea for such an economic policy. Trickle down economics is good because it inevitably leads to more jobs and money for the middle and lower classes and to an expanding economy.

Liberals should actually take a class in macroeconomics before they start complaining about trickle down economics.

See economics, economy, class warfare, government


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