Gee who could've seen that coming
@Banquo Clearly we need to keep trying it, it will obviously work the ninety-ninth time!

@lapis @Banquo

so we cut taxes for the wealthy at the expense of services to the poor
and the rich got richer and the poor got poorer
but that wasn't real capitalism,
so we cut taxes for the wealthy at the expense of services to the poor
and the rich got richer and the poor got poorer
but that wasn't real capitalism...

@Banquo It appears as urine, in alleyways.
@Banquo I'm shocked, truly in awe, flabbergasted
@Banquo Gee, it's not like they would put that now freed-up money to use.
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Fifty Years of Tax Cuts for Rich Didn’t Trickle Down, Study Says

Tax cuts for rich people breed inequality without providing much of a boon to anyone else, according to a study of the advanced world that could add to the case for the wealthy to bear more of the cost of the coronavirus pandemic.

Bloomberg
@Banquo
Study is OBVIOUSLY payed for by BIG POVERTY! They don't want the billionaires being happy! If the billionaires don't buy yachts big enough to land their private jets on then who will? Who will tell little Timmy, whose father works for the private jet landing yacht companies, that he's not getting shoes this year?