(11-04-2026 12:49 PM)Frank Grimes Wrote:  

(11-04-2026 12:25 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(11-04-2026 12:20 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(11-04-2026 12:17 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(11-04-2026 11:18 AM)JRsec Wrote:  The trickle is all soaked up by the corporate multinationals that donate so very heavily to both parties. It doesn't go to private business, Mom or Pop businesses, nor does it even go to the upper middle class, let alone any of the rest of us. And therein resides the failure of trickle down.

But the bigger issue is just one of simple truths. Corporations...or even small business owners for that matter...don't hire people just because they got a tax cut. Just like they don't give raises just because they got a tax cut.

They hire when they have a demand for product to sell and need workers to make it.

And people who are already rich don't need much of anything to expect them to spend their tax cuts on basic goods that drive economic growth. They're way more apt to dump it into savings to further build their wealth.

Lower taxes mean higher profit margins which means marginal sales are profitable. So it leads to higher employment.

But. It. Hasn't.

Eh, it has though. Employment’s not the issue, it’s either underemployment or wages just not matching inflation.

I hope conservatives learned this go-round that basically saying “sorry poors” is a bad way of handling the cost of living issue many are facing. Should they realize that, and acknowledge/address it over the next 2-4 years, I’m sure there’d be some votes in play.

Ah yes, the logical fallacy of "Correlation does not imply causation." The tax cuts...trickle down economics...is not the reason for the higher employment.