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What ever happen to the trickel down therory.?

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  • 7 years ago
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    It couldn't be sustained. Also known as Reaganomics, all the tax cuts for wealthy Americans caused the national debt to rise from $900 billion to $2.8 trillion during Reagan's presidency.

  • 7 years ago

    It became the "trickle" down theory and was proven to be in error. It's also an issue that wouldn't have been posted in this section, if you had known what you were doing.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    It all trickled into koch bothers mines, pocket and GOP politicians

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    it has never been truly tried as far as i know . the closest any one has ever come is;

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism

    reaganomics failed to actually shrink the government , witch is an integral part of the theory.

    it never trickled past the cronies pockets.

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  • 7 years ago

    Look at you being all clever, putting this in mythology and folklore.

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