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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No, it always meant the poor is left to “eat shit.”

  In 1982, John Kenneth Galbraith wrote the “trickle-down economics” that David Stockman was referring to was previously known under the name “horse-and-sparrow theory”, the idea that feeding a horse a huge amount of oats results in some of the feed passing through for lucky sparrows to eat.[30]

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Image

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• Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When Ronald Reagan proposed trickle-down in 1979, opposing candidate George W. Bush dismissed it as ‘voo-doo’ economics. Later, Bush was happy to push for it when he got the nomination to be Reagan’s Veep

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• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Always did…

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Whoa. Are you showering in 1981?

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• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hey! Whatever it is you just said about our reading comprehension, you take that back!

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• foggy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tinkle down economics

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• bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pickle down

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• AltheaHunter@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  tinkle-down

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• Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What did you think liquid gold was? Oil is black

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• 3dmvr@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Apt

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• bhamlin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Golden Shower Economics

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