The game was rigged since the start, just amazed you thought it was rigged in your favor
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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taxing people without money rather than taxing people with money seems like a stupid idea, Louisiana
It’s trickle UP economics. Thanks Reagan!
Welcome to the new America. It only gets worse from here.
Beatings will continue until moral improves
Hey now, let’s give it some time.
It’s only been *checks calendar* about 50 years since we’ve been trying it out. Don’t be so impatient people, it’ll trickle down eventually.
It was stupid and idiotic from day one so of course the GOP loves it because it means less money for the poor and more money for the rich.
What a wild time to be alive where Robert Reich is a *far-left* political figure. He was pretty centrist back in the 90s and 00s.
Here’s a hint: he didn’t move left.
Why are southern states such corporate shit holes?
And people in LA will blame Biden because this happened during his term.
Having a top heavy society where you continue to raise prices and tax the hell out of the middle and lower classes is not sustainable long term.
This is TRICKLE UP ECONOMICS and it will work 100%
“Ya but you don’t have to buy things..” – rich people
WHY take money from people and CORPORATIONS (not people!) that are actively making and have money when you can just tax the poor people that simply need to buy food, toilet paper, and maybe a damn toy for their kids and will now pay MORE.
That’s that strong education in Louisiana really working hard right there..
It’s the Oligarch ‘s world and we just live in it.
It’s a pretty simple equation: the government requires a certain amount of money to operate, and if the 0.01% isn’t paying their share, the rest of us have to pay more.
Corporate tax cuts. Just what corporations need. The people? Who keep these corporations running? Fuck em
Louisiana is so screwed already. Poverty not believed til you see it
Sales tax affect poorer people more. Good job USA. Very first world country of you.
Didn’t the inventor of trickle down economics admid that it was just made up to fool people?
So prices stay the same but the tax burden is shifted to the consumer
More like Trickle UP economics…..our money becomes theirs. I hope I live long enough to see the uprising.
Trickle down economics has been proven to just be a scam. The rich keep getting richer while everyone else struggles. Time for a change! 🙄💸
These are the people they elect. You get what you deserve.
Robert Reich is the man, and anyone would do well to listen to anything he says.
My personal namne for ”Trickle down economics” is ”Golden shower economics”. The 1 % want us to think ther piss is gold
Waking up this morning reading this: This is really sad for the Louisiana residents. I mean, you can blame them for voting their officials in, but it’s more (probably) complicated than that. My blame goes to misinformation and super PACs. I was hoping more could be don’t to stomp these issues out, but seems our democracy is unable to do so.
I love that for them. May you keep getting everything you voted for.
Is the [Kansas experiment ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_experiment) a joke to them?
Taxing wealth is woke
Setting aside the regressive nature of sales tax, wouldn’t this stifle consumption, lower demand and shrink the economy?
Great solution… don’t spend your increased income to win and cripple the economy in one stroke.
And think of all the money lost to taxing social security to pay
For it
Consumption taxes are proportionally hardest on lowest income households.
To be fair to Louisiana, they are absolutely a recipient of trickle down economics! Cuz that state is clearly not earning money on its own, and is consistently one of the biggest takers of federal money in our beautiful nation
Dang. The sales tax in Louisiana is like 9% already on everything, isn’t it?
Trickle down economics: where wealth supposedly takes the scenic route before reaching the people who actually need it
Oh come on now, Republican voters are already talking about all the prosperity King Donald will bring us.
We literally keep doing it to ourselves and get mad at everyone else. Maybe one day people will realize that there are more than two political parties? Nah…