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[–] [email protected] 99 points 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago

Pickle down Rickonomics

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

High capacity pump up, and a trickle down.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 10 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 10 months ago (29 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

They got the bomb we got the guillotine

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Just rid them of all their money. 100%

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 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 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago

Proceeds to throw up on the floor and continues eating.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 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 10 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 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 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 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 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 10 months ago

"You can have what's left!"

"But there's never anything left!"

[–] therealjcdenton 3 points 9 months ago

But I want it NOW

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 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 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 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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