The only argument I'd believe as truthful from a "Rockefeller" Republican would be something like this:"I'm a billionaire. I like my money. It allows me to travel wherever I want all over the world in my private jet--whenever I want, for as long as I want. I hate dealing with the riffraff I unfortunately sometimes encounter during the rare moments when I actually walk on the street, and cannot stand the notion of my money--which I could instead be using to buy another yacht--going to these disgusting, undeserving people."
Now, I find a lot of things about this argument objectionable and even unconscionable, but at least it's honest. At least every objective statement is true (e.g. the fact that he's a billionaire, he owns a private jet). But no one could win a campaign on such an argument, could they? Instead, they have to swaddle this greed in arguments warped in such a way so that it seems as though their greed is actually good for the disgusting, undeserving masses.
No argument is a better example of this than "trickle-down economics". What a fuckin' lie. A flat-out lie. You want an example of "trickle-down economics"??? Go to Saudi Arabia, where 5% of the population is mind-blowingly rich while surrounded by the other 95% in devastating poverty. You tell me how well it looks like that money is "trickling down". Want another example? How about every single monarchy in the history of the world? Oh, those don't count because they don't provide the opportunity for the individual entrepreneur that red-blooded, democratic, capitalist America provides?? Well, take a look at the demographics of every single reign of a Republican president in the last 50 years: in each one, the gap between the lower and upper classes has widened.
The only thing that ends up "trickling down" in a "trickle-down" economy are the individuals in the middle class, trickling right down into the gutter.
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