agreed. just a grammatically deprived mess.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 02, 2020 9:19 amNot for nuthin', but it may be that your style of writing left your meaning open to confusion. I'll admit that I read the sentence multiple times and still wasn't sure.wgdsr wrote: ↑Tue Dec 01, 2020 8:36 pmthis is the part that you quoted from me:a fan wrote: ↑Tue Dec 01, 2020 8:25 pmIt's not a theory. We've all seen Ferris Bueller and Ben Stein's mention of "Voodoo Economics".
He's talking about the Laffer Curve. He's the guy who came up with the stupid idea of Trickle Down in 1974. Reagan took it, and implemented it.
Not one of the things I mentioned are anything by RightWIng ideas: bust unions, cut taxes on corporations, cut taxes on the very rich.....all with the idea that the economy will boom. It doesn't work, of course.
And there's no way you can argue that a left winger came up with any one of those ideas.
And Reagan is the guy who put the cuts into practice...I can show you a ton of charts that shows that is the moment that dozens of bad things happened. Productivity vs. wages. Income disparity. Net worth of bottom 50% earners. And on and on.....
Not one of these economic ideas came from the left. They are all right wing ideas. I'm not giving you a theory. I'm telling you what actually happened.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/briandomit ... b83fc475ab
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics
"don't agree at all that one side has had the stick to do something about it any more than the other over time, fiscally included, but just my perspective"
over 40 years both parties have had ample opportunity to do something about it. imo. meaning... i don't care who "invented it". that's your cause.
On the merits of the 'disagreement', it does seem to me that the critics of trickle down have been consistently from the left, the proponents consistently from the right. The power structure has been fine with the status quo.
in my defense, the page beforehand led to the focus of that part of my post, and was more clear on the dialogue and assertion made.