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#trickledown

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#theguardian #martinkettle
#trump #tariffs

All the commentary on this subject shows an amazing lack of honesty. The reason that #usa isn’t ‘great’ in America is because of Reagan’s #trickledown economics. Exported around the world.

If #trump wanted to make America great he would have increased taxes on the rich back up to 60% instead of #tariffs. America will continue the slide to look like Russia in the 70s as infrastructure continues the #fallout4 makeover and manufacturing is just cheap crap.

Other country leaders should take note. If you want to build an army you need money and it is being stashed in those rich people’s coffers.

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Perilous and chaotic, Trump’s ‘liberation day’ endangers the world’s broken economy – and him theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Perilous and chaotic, Trump’s ‘liberation day’ endangers the world’s broken economy – and himBy Martin Kettle
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⬆️ @GoatRoper @OGjester @lednaBM

>> Before #Reagan, a lot more citizens hated #Republicans than today, especially those who suffered through Hoover"s #GreatDepression. None of those folks are alive to explain to the younger generations how horrible #trickleDown austerity is.

#PeaceConstant is 3 generations max, ~90 years in modern times.

Every few generations, humans make new mistakes that resemble old mistakes, and the next generation has to relearn hard lessons about peace and prosperity.

#trickledowneconomics
Wealth doesn't #trickledown naturally, it stays where it is or it floats upwards. Wealth gives market advantage. The reality is that unless it is well regulated, Wealth gets sucked upwards.

That's why the workers and the middle classes are losing wealth just as the billionaires are amassing it in proportions of world GDP that haven't been seen since Julius Caesar and his friends/enemies looted the entirety of Europe and the middle East 2000 years ago.

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Oh my! This article has pointed out the philanthropy is pretty much dead and buried in the USA. The charity groups have been mainly funded by the government for decades. There is no #trickledown from all these tax cuts that have created billionaires.