“We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.” YearsCountryTenEconomicsDampTrickle DownTrickle Down Economics Author:Molly Ivins
“Trickle down economics creates a nation of peons.” NationsEconomicsTrickle DownTrickle Down Economics Author:Thom Hartmann
“We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker's child to miss school in order to earn...just so the family can eat. That is the moral bankruptcy that trickle-down economics is all about.” ChildrenDoeSchoolOrderForceMoralEconomyMissingEconomicsWorkersBankruptcyMigrantsTrickle DownTrickle Down EconomicsMigrant Workers Author:Barbara Jordan
“Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom.” HelpingMiddleEconomicsBottomMythCorporationsEnrichingTrickle DownTrickle Down Economics Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“Trickle-down economics - it didn't work. The whole idea was supply-side economics: give rich people a lot of money; they'll spend it, it'll go into the economy. Here's what we found out - rich people, really good at keeping all the money. That's how they got rich. If you want it in the economy, give it to the poor people. You know what they're really good at? Spending all their money.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantGivingIdeasWholeFoundSidesPoorEconomyRichEconomicsSpendingLots Of MoneyPoor PeopleRich PeopleTrickle DownTrickle Down EconomicsSupply Side Economics Author:Greg Fitzsimmons
“Trickle down economics is a fraud. Giving tax breaks to the rich and large corporations does not create jobs. It simply makes the rich richer, enlarges the deficit and increases income and wealth inequality. We need economic policies which benefit working families, not the billionaire class.” NeedsGivingDoeJobsWealthClassBreakRichEconomicPolicyTaxesBenefitsEconomicsIncreaseIncomeInequalityCorporationsFraudDeficitBillionaireEconomic PolicyTax BreaksTrickle DownWealth InequalityTrickle Down Economics Author:Bernie Sanders
“[Donald] Trump and all the Republicans believe in the theory of trickle down economics which is a theory discredited even by the author himself David Stockton. The theory suggests that if we take care of the people at the top, if we cut taxes for the wealthy, if we make sure they are doing really well, then the investments that they make in the economy and the jobs that will create, will make everything grow and it will have a trickle down effect on the rest of us.” PeopleIfsBelieveWellsCareJobsGrowsEconomyCuttingEffectsTheoryTrumpRepublicanTaxesEconomicsInvestmentTake CareWealthyTrickle DownTrickle Down Economics Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“I don't think all the blame lies with Wall Street. I think a lot of the blame lies with the [George W.] Bush administration. They went back to trickle-down economics. They took their eye off the mortgage market, they took their eye off the finance markets, and we ended up in a big mess.” ThinkingBigsEyeLyingStreetsWallEconomicsBlameFinanceMessAdministrationMortgageTrickle DownTrickle Down Economics Author:Hillary Clinton
“The kind of plan that Donald [Tramp] has put forth would be trickle-down economics all over again. In fact, it would be the most extreme version, the biggest tax cuts for the top percent of the people in this country than we've ever had.” PeopleKindCountryFactsWould BeCuttingPlansTaxesPercentEconomicsExtremesVersionsTax CutsTrampsTrickle DownTrickle Down Economics Author:Hillary Clinton
“The Democrats have been there for working people in our country. That's who we are, trickle-down vs. middle-class economics. That's the major difference between the parties.” PeopleHas BeensCountryDifferencesPartyClassMiddleMajorsEconomicsDemocratOur CountryWho We AreMiddle ClassTrickle Down Author:Nancy Pelosi
“Trump's junk economics is the illusion that if we cut the taxes on the wealthiest brackets, it'll all trickle down. But it doesn't trickle down.” IfsCuttingTrumpTaxesIllusionEconomicsJunkTrickle DownBrackets Author:Michael Hudson
“This is a guy [Steven Lerner] who believes, for example, that Reaganomics or trickle-down economics means, "The rich got rich by stealing from the poor," or stealing from the middle class and making them poor via debt. He has worked with unions in Europe.” BelieveMeanGuyPoorClassRichMiddleExampleEuropeEconomicsUnionsDebtStealingMiddle ClassTrickle DownTrickle Down EconomicsReaganomics Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.” PeopleThinkingBelieveShareEconomicsDon't BelieveTrickle DownTrickle Down Economics Author:Dave Matthews
“If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).” IfsEnoughEconomicsHorseReferringSparrowsTrickle DownOatsTrickle Down Economics Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own, through their no doubt lavish spending, upon those who stand below them on the economic ladder. Notice that the metaphor is not that of a gushing waterfall but of a leaking tap: even the most optimistic endorsers of this concept do not picture very much real flow, as their language reveals" pg. 102.” PeopleRealLanguageWealthRichDoubtEconomicTheoryConceptsEconomicsFlowMetaphorSpendingOptimisticNo DoubtLaddersRich PeopleWaterfallsTrickle Down Author:Margaret Atwood
“Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rick as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.” WayDoeRealizingSimpleCuttingTaxesEconomicsIncomeTax CutsTrickle DownTrickle Down EconomicsIncome Redistribution Author:Ha-Joon Chang
“My friends, that's trickle-down economics, and I believe every worker in America is tired of being trickled on by George W. Bush” BelieveAmericaI BelieveMy FriendsEconomicsTiredWorkersTrickle DownTrickle Down Economics Author:John F. Kerry
“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.” IfsSaidEnoughSidesGenerationsEconomicPolicyTheoryApproachEconomicsHorseElegantSparrowsEconomic PolicyTrickle DownOatsTrickle Down EconomicsSupply Side Economics Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is no evidence for it. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.” IfsLittlesMadeBitsPoorEconomyRichPleaseLittle BitLowsEvidenceEconomicsClaimsIncreaseWorkersNonsenseCollapseMinimumUnemploymentBetter OffGet RichMinimum WageInsidiousInsistingTrickle DownTrickle Down Economics Author:Nick Hanauer
“Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.” KnowsHas BeensJobsTheoryEconomicsCorporationsObnoxiousTrickle DownTrickle Down Economics Author:Hillary Clinton