50-year study of tax cuts on wealthy shows they always fail to “trickle down”

https://www.salon.com/2020/12/27/50-year-study-of-tax-cuts-on-wealthy-shows-they-always-fail-to-trickle-down/

22 Comments

  1. Middle-Salt8880 on

    They work exactly as they’re intended to work.

    Wealth of 400 Richest Americans

    2009: $1,270,000,000,000 (One trillion, 270 billion)

    2020: $3,200,000,000,000

  2. That was in the past. This new generation of wealthy will spread the wealth more fairly /s

  3. This economic theory has been around forever. It used to be be called ‘The Horse and Sparrow’ economic theory. Over feed the horse and the sparrow gets what’s leftover.

    I can see why they abandoned saying it that way.

  4. Ok-Firefighter-6172 on

    The top .01% wage earners control 13.9% of all US assets and pay little to no taxes due to how Congress and the senate (with both parties) have set it up

    Imagine owning 13.9% of US assets and pay America no tax’s

    WTF

  5. Cool-Protection-4337 on

    Lol the keep discovering this tid bit every decade or so. Makes for a good news story but they don’t ever fix it. In fact they make it worse by giving them tax cut after tax cut. They even managed permanent tax cuts, a gut punch to the rest of us. These tariffs the billionaire trump is so proud of is just another way for the billionaires to tax us so they can keep spending insane amounts on a military that honestly doesn’t show what we throw into it every year.
    Our equipment is mostly is old and outdated still, I know this personally as I have actually served. 

  6. Ok-Abbreviations543 on

    This study has been repeated dozens of times. The conclusion is always the same. And yet, after decades of conclusive debunking and as the national debt explodes, Republicans continue to trot out the absurd and magical notion that massive tax cuts for the massively wealthy grow the economy and make everybody rich.

    Americans are innumerate.

  7. Subject-Big-7352 on

    Anyone with common sense knows the trickle down theory is a myth and has never worked…now we have a study to tell us it doesn’t work. thx

  8. 50 fucking years?? 🫩 5 years should’ve be enough… even 10 would’ve been reasonable.

    *Tf are we doing?*

  9. >It is not just Republicans who have advanced policies that have led inequality to skyrocket since the 1980s. The top tax rate has been cut six times in the past four decades, often with support from Democrats, noted The Washington Post’s Christopher Ingraham. In fact, 40% of lawmakers who supported Reagan’s 1981 tax cut, which lowered the top tax rate from 70% to 50% were Democrats. Democrats provided the majority of votes for Reagan’s 1986 tax cuts that lowered the top tax rate even further to 28%.

    Remember the saying, “Best government money can buy”?

  10. Responsible_Swim_319 on

    Hello this is Robin Hood, for the last time “take from the rich fuckers and give to the people who deserve a break”