Trickle down is a political term. Economists know that wealth trickles up. It is only moved back down with taxes. Non-economists have a saying for this, “the rich get richer”. Economists have a formula for this: r > g
And inheritance is one of the biggest source of inequalities hence why Piketty proposes a massive tax on inheritance to be redistributed equally as a universel basic inheritance to young people. There are hard core scientific papers behind it but this is a popularized article I have found: https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/fairer-taxes-and-inheritance-for-all-the-economic-plans-of-star-economist-piketty/. Problem is inheritance is an extremely touchy topic, most people have the deeply rooted instinct to give everything to there children and can't think rationally about it.
If we saturate the advertisement sphere with photos of trust fund inheritance boys in pastel rompers and bow ties we can finally put an end to this nonsense
Pickle down Rickonomics
High capacity pump up, and a trickle down.
To get a real trickle down effect, you'd need to tax them and watch the tears trickle down.
How about off with their heads since they'll just find ways to dodge taxes?
Yup. Only trickle I wanna hear is the blood of billionaires
They got the bomb we got the guillotine
Just rid them of all their money. 100%
What are you talking about? As someone in the middle class it's been nothing but golden showers for me.
I told you, when i'm finished, you can have what's left!
Proceeds to throw up on the floor and continues eating.
Let's stop pretending Ronald Reagan could do anything but read a script
"He was just a puppet" is both untrue and too forgiving of his agency in being the worst thing to happen to America since...
Well, actually, he's got a lot of competion even in the 70's, like the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of young men to fight an unjust war.
Wealth can only be obtained by taking wealth from others and the easiest way is taking from the unwealthy.
Why do they call themselves unwealthy if they aspire to get wealthy? 🤔
I think I feel a trickle but I think it's just piss.
Such a bad analogy. Only slightly better if he'd freeze most of it, and sell a tiny part at an inflated prize due to the scarcity.
He has more in the freezer that he also won't share ( ͡❛ ︹ ͡❛)
He also owns all of the grocery stores, food distributors, trucking companies, farms, laborers, and politicians to remove safety laws and taxes concerning all of those, for a better analogy.
"You can have what's left!"
"But there's never anything left!"
But I want it NOW
I dunno the source context (looks very Family Guy/American Dad?) but the image by itself is so... Creepily unsettling. 😐
Family guy, Season 4 Episode 19: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jHFTATeWH5g
Thanks for the context!
Yep even in the pocket-dimension of a nonsense Family Guy bit, it's still creepy and unsettling! Lol
Hey, at least it's not the R Kelly trickle down economics.
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