A president’s budget proposal is seldom passed into law. Instead, it’s an expression of the priorities the president promises to fight for, often coming on the heels of an agenda laid out in the State of the Union address.
In his recent State of the Union speech, President Biden previewed his economically populist priorities when he said “the days of trickle-down economics are over.”
Trickle-down refers to the idea that tax cuts for the wealthiest “trickle down” to the rest of us. It’s long been a popular idea in Washington, but it’s just not true. A few years ago, the London School of Economics studied 50 years of such “trickle-down” policies in 18 industrialized nations, including the U.S., and found that their only result was increasing the wealth of the already wealthy.
So how do we get prosperity for the rest of us? By taxing extreme wealth and investing those revenues in social goods like education, housing, food and health care. President Biden’s recently released federal budget plan follows that blueprint, putting the value of investing in American families and communities ahead of slashing taxes for the rich.
Lol please. Even if Democrats controlled both houses, none of this shit would pass. The president’s budget is quite literally propaganda. The article title is fucking ridiculous. None of the Democrats in a position of power have any desire to end trickle down economics. They’ve all been there for decades and they’ve had multiple opportunities to do so in that timeframe
Wake the fuck up already, none of these people give a single shit about you. And they haven’t since the mid 90s when Democrats adopted “third way” right wing economics.