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is a theory based on the wealthy declaring: We have all the money. If we drop some, it's yours. Go for it.

We survived the 1980's. Back then, the economic program was called 'trickle down.' That actually meant they were pissing on you. How the whole theory goes was this: 'We have all the money. If we drop some, it's yours. Go for it.' Bill Maher

is a modern form of the horse-and-sparrow theory which was partly to blame for the panic of 1896: 'If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows'.

The economist John Kenneth Galbraith noted that 'trickle-down economics' had been tried before in the United States in the 1890s under the name 'horse and sparrow theory.' He wrote, 'Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: 'If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.'' Galbraith claimed that the horse and sparrow theory was partly to blame for the Panic of 1896.

is the unfounded assumption that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world, expressing a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.

In 2013 Pope Francis refers to trickle-down theories (plural) in his Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium with the statement (No.54) 'Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.'

is the wrongheaded idea that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below, whereas the democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it.

There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it.

is what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows. John Kenneth Galbraith

is a leftist revision of what economics actually is because you're not giving me the money. It was my money in the first place created through voluntary transactions that I had with others.

the basic name trickle-down economics is not something that any conservative even proposed it's a leftist revision of what economics actually is because you're not giving me the money it was my money in the first place created through voluntary transactions that I had with others I'm not stolen money from either from anyone neither have you and the idea that money has to be forcibly taken from you and handed to somebody at the bottom end of the economic spectrum to somehow job the economy that made job McDonald's but is not going to jog all of the creation of the products and services that make all of our lives much better today than they were thirty years ago in terms of the stuff we have access to.

is a nice way of saying “the working class eats the scraps from the table of the upper class”.

“Trickle-down economics” is basically a nice way of saying “the working class eats the scraps from the table of the upper class.”

is essentially just the hope that the greediest people on earth will give away enough of their money for the rest of us to live.

Trickle-down economics is essentially just the hope that the greediest people on earth will give away enough of their money for the rest of us to live.

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