Trickle Down Economics Quotes

• The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

  Warren Buffett

  Hope, Money, Catching On

  "Warren Buffett: Read My Lips, Raise My Taxes". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 21, 2010.

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• The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.

  Will Rogers

  Night, Hands, People

  "And Here's How It All Happened". Syndicated column #518. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933". Book by Steven Gragert, 1982.

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• Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rick as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Cutting, Simple, Doe

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• I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.

  Dave Matthews

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Dave Matthews makes (and talks) history". Interview with Kareen Wynter and Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2012.

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• Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy — what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Horse, Oats, Sides

  "Recession Economics". New York Review of Books, Volume 29, Number 1, February 04, 1982.

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• Trickle down economics is a fraud. Giving tax breaks to the rich and large corporations does not create jobs. It simply makes the rich richer, enlarges the deficit and increases income and wealth inequality. We need economic policies which benefit working families, not the billionaire class.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Class, Giving

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• If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Horse, Oats, Sparrows

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• We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.

  Molly Ivins

  Country, Years, Economics

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• Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.

  Pope Francis

  Economic Inequality, Justice, People

  "The Joy of the Gospel: Evangelii Gaudium". Book by Pope Francis, w2.vatican.va. November 26, 2013.

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• It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.

  David Stockman

  Way, Sides, Kind

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• Trickle down economics creates a nation of peons.

  Thom Hartmann

  Economics, Trickle Down, Nations

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• We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker's child to miss school in order to earn...just so the family can eat. That is the moral bankruptcy that trickle-down economics is all about.

  Barbara Jordan

  Children, School, Order

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• This is a guy [Steven Lerner] who believes, for example, that Reaganomics or trickle-down economics means, "The rich got rich by stealing from the poor," or stealing from the middle class and making them poor via debt. He has worked with unions in Europe.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Mean, Europe

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The kind of plan that Donald [Tramp] has put forth would be trickle-down economics all over again. In fact, it would be the most extreme version, the biggest tax cuts for the top percent of the people in this country than we've ever had.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Cutting, People

  Source: time.com

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• [Donald] Trump and all the Republicans believe in the theory of trickle down economics which is a theory discredited even by the author himself David Stockton. The theory suggests that if we take care of the people at the top, if we cut taxes for the wealthy, if we make sure they are doing really well, then the investments that they make in the economy and the jobs that will create, will make everything grow and it will have a trickle down effect on the rest of us.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Jobs, Believe, Cutting

  Source: ciudadweston.com

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• There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The DEMOCRATIC idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them

  William Jennings Bryan

  Believe, Government, Class

  Speech at Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 8 July 1896

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• Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Corporations, Helping, Economics

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• My friends, that's trickle-down economics, and I believe every worker in America is tired of being trickled on by George W. Bush

  John F. Kerry

  Believe, Tired, America

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• But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is no evidence for it. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

  Nick Hanauer

  Unemployment, Minimum Wage, Littles

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• I don't think all the blame lies with Wall Street. I think a lot of the blame lies with the [George W.] Bush administration. They went back to trickle-down economics. They took their eye off the mortgage market, they took their eye off the finance markets, and we ended up in a big mess.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wall, Lying, Eye

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Corporations, Economics

  "Hillary: 'Don't Let Anybody Tell You' That 'Businesses Create Jobs'". Hillary Clinton's speech to the crowd at a Boston rally for Democrat gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley at the Park Plaza Hotel, www.breitbart.com. October 24, 2014.

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• Trickle-down economics - it didn't work. The whole idea was supply-side economics: give rich people a lot of money; they'll spend it, it'll go into the economy. Here's what we found out - rich people, really good at keeping all the money. That's how they got rich. If you want it in the economy, give it to the poor people. You know what they're really good at? Spending all their money.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Ideas, People, Giving

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