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[–] [email protected] 99 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Pickle down Rickonomics

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

High capacity pump up, and a trickle down.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 7 months ago (2 children)

To get a real trickle down effect, you'd need to tax them and watch the tears trickle down.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (29 children)

How about off with their heads since they'll just find ways to dodge taxes?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yup. Only trickle I wanna hear is the blood of billionaires

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

They got the bomb we got the guillotine

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Just rid them of all their money. 100%

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago

What are you talking about? As someone in the middle class it's been nothing but golden showers for me.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I told you, when i'm finished, you can have what's left!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago

Proceeds to throw up on the floor and continues eating.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Let's stop pretending Ronald Reagan could do anything but read a script

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago

"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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wealth can only be obtained by taking wealth from others and the easiest way is taking from the unwealthy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Why do they call themselves unwealthy if they aspire to get wealthy? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

I think I feel a trickle but I think it's just piss.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] balderdash9 16 points 7 months ago

He has more in the freezer that he also won't share ( ͡❛ ︹ ͡❛)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

"You can have what's left!"

"But there's never anything left!"

[–] therealjcdenton 3 points 7 months ago

But I want it NOW

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I dunno the source context (looks very Family Guy/American Dad?) but the image by itself is so... Creepily unsettling. 😐

[–] balderdash9 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the context!

Yep even in the pocket-dimension of a nonsense Family Guy bit, it's still creepy and unsettling! Lol

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