I just don’t get how people bought the whole trickle down economics. You look at tax rates since ww2 and lowering taxes has continually lead to worse outcomes. Our biggest bumps have been from the clinton and obama tax increases.
I just don’t get how people bought the whole trickle down economics. You look at tax rates since ww2 and lowering taxes has continually lead to worse outcomes. Our biggest bumps have been from the clinton and obama tax increases.
We should tax the rich and spend on infrastructure.
But…
These are two separate conversations. We don’t need to tax before we can afford to spend. The deficit myth is a rhetorical sleight of hand that the powerful use to avoid authorizing spending on stuff they don’t like.