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Leopard Voters Got What They Wanted – Those who expect that the leopard will hurt others, and not them, are likely to be unpleasantly surprised. (www.theatlantic.com)

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[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

The trickle down thing was obviously wrong many decades ago. Now it's only said ironically.

Not only do the 'spoils' at the stock market not trickle down, but Trump is probably going to give a huge tax cut to rich people in his first week as president in 2025. The only way it can trickle down realistically is by high taxes on the rich paired with UBI or federal jobs programs, which isn't something that Republicans would do. The Private Public Partnership model also favors the rich as the private company owners and executives take most of the gains while paying terrible wages to everyone else. Hence, "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer".