Don't know how trickle-down economics even staretd

It's not a real term

Well the concept of cutting taxes while simultaneously massively raising government spending is blowing up the deficit

GG @Andrew_Hunter, you just advanced to level 1!

think of it like this

let's tax this guy to space

at 100%

is he going to pay taxes?

but at the same time

let's not tax this guy at 0%

will he pay taxes?

Think about this, when the top marginal tax rate was 70-90% in the 40s through the 70s how was the economy?

pretty shit

how do you think stagflation started

turns out government spending can't stop it

especially when ww2 made the economy great

so did korea war

so did vietnam war

oh wait america is nolonger in any war now

fucking stagflation

If government spending is a bad thing then why do republicans advocate for massive military spending that is blowing up the deficit?

How do you define military spending

You do realize Trump increased spending for veterans

which is classified as military spending

Trump did increase spending for cybersecurity so we won't get computer attacks

Trump has also increased spending on the military as a whole

which is classified as military spending

Trump did increase spending on technology

which is whoa

i thought not a bad thing

If we actually cut military spending, the EU would be butthurt as fuck

We need to spend money on our people, not spend it on invading other countries that didn’t attack us

"waah what if russia invades me"

"plz america"

"i dont want to spend more on military"

"i want to use the excess surplus to spend on my people, please protect us"

We could cut military spending by 100 billion and we’d still be spending more than double what China is spending

Or Russia

how is that relevant again

You could cut 100 million spending and foreign countries would be butthurt that america might not protect them because "they're withdrawing troops away"

Because the massive military spending and the unnecessary wars in the Middle East are costing the US big time