Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
The "trickle down" phrase was dreamed up by the press. Supply side economics worked. I guess we could call Obama's economic policy "trickle up" and it did not work for FDR and is not working for Obama.
"work" for whom? For the rich, yeah it worked perfectly. For the lower classes, ummm not so much. Incomes to cost of living ratios have slowly deteriorated for middle and lower class and for the rich, well lets just say they have done swimmingly.
""work" for whom? For the rich, yeah it worked perfectly."
So why don't you go work for a poor man. Oh, wait, that doesn't work because poor men don't have businesses that hire.
Tinkering by the federal government, instead of letting market forces work.
I personally don't have a problem with government's stepping in when needed. You can not leave a company to its own devices. People are greedy and short sited. you allow them to do whatever they want they will enron the living enron out of all of us.
You are not reading the whole thing, eliminating tax deductions but he said nothing about eliminating tax breaks (loopholes) for the rich. If he said and actually meant that he would be in violation of the norquist agreement and they would have drummed him out of the party
Duh!
TAX DEDUCTIONS ARE LOOPHOLES!
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.