If you take a bucket of water from one side of the lake and pour it out into the other side of the lake is the lake any deeper?

If you take a bucket of water from one side of the lake and pour it out into the other side of the lake is the lake any deeper?

LOL, seriously , you thought this a good analogy , blaming Democrats, etc... sadly, no one has to tell me what is wrong with nor in Life and Living - IT'S A LOT of BAD , GREEDY and STUPID , HUMANS !

You MAY want to take a "Remedial Economics Class", Norbert....

Money is a TOOL of financial transaction, NOT a "commodity" of which there is a fixed & finite amount.....if lake water was a commodity, and you took a bucketful from one side of the lake and put it on the other side, the lake WOULD INDEED get that much deeper!

That isn't a good analogy. Economics is a complicated subject, and rising tides do not necessarily lift all boats like you are implying. I am not in favor of government wealth redistribution, but it is a fact economies are driven by the consumer, reacted upon by the producer. Companies will only expand and create jobs if there is sufficient demand for their product.

The point is not to "grow the economy".

Generally speaking, progressive movements are trying to go beyond the worship of the economic beast.

If the economy grows and that only serves a tiny minority, then so what? Why should the masses of the people care about "the economy"?

Personally, I'm willing to let the stock market crash, let them fail, let the dollar crumble and go back to the drawing board, since I do not accept "efficiency" as an acceptable reason to keep a system of injustice alive. (It wasn't an acceptable reason to maintain slavery, and it's not an acceptable reason to maintain financial stewardship of the Earth).

Rich Americans need to pay the same percentage of their incomes in all taxes and fees that working Americans do, and not a penny less. Currently, they only shoulder a fraction of the burden that workers shoulder.

Democrats seem to believe in the "zero sum game" meaning that there is only so much to go around and no more.

Non-Democrats believe in "go make your own" which is more difficult than taking from someone else. There are also no guarantees when you have to make your own, you can fail. Taking from others (redistribution) is safer because one can see what they are taking.

Try again

The rich don't grow the economy in America ; they grow it in third world countries

That's a better analogy for daylight saving time, which is also a colossal boondoggle we'd be better off without..

So how does taking money from the poor and middle class and giving it to the wealthy--which is conservative plan--benefit the economy either?

Not a valid analogy.

Cons should not attempt to use logic, you do not have the proper training.