'It Never Trickles Down': Scarborough Tells The Truth About The Last 30 Years

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MSNBC host Joe Scarborough complained on Tuesday that the Republican Party was fracturing because it had advocated economic policies benefiting the richest Americans for the last 30 years with the promise that the wealth would "trickle down" to others -- but it never did.

"The problem with the Republican Party over the past 30 years is they haven't -- and I'll say, we haven't -- developed a message that appeals to the working class Americans economically in a way that Donald Trump's does," the former Republican lawmaker explained. "We talk about cutting capital gains taxes that the 10,000 people that in the crowd cheering for Donald Trump, they are never going to get a capital gains cut because it doesn't apply."

"We talk about getting rid of the death tax," he continued. "The death tax is not going to impact the 10,000 people in the crowd for Donald Trump. We talk about how great free trade deals are. Those free trade deals never trickle down to those 10,000 people in Donald Trump's rallies."

"You sound like Bernie Sanders," NBC's Chuck Todd pointed out.
More: http://crooksandliars.com/2016/03/it-never-trickles-down-scarborough-tells

[chapdrum]

1. Joe Schmoe & Chuck Toad

truly deserve each other.

Joe, where were you 30 years ago, when your party's hero was selling us this lie?

Worked real good, didn't it?

So then some years later, emboldened by that and many other of your party's successes, another of your party's almost (because it's a woman) heroes told another whopper about the smoking gun likely turning into a mushroom cloud.

That worked real good, too.

The fact that we are obligated to take ANY of your party's oligarchy-loving, death-embracing blather seriously, at all, is insulting beyond belief.

[liberalnarb]

2. This absolutely blew me away!

The blind are beginning to see again.

[Land of Enchantment]

3. Saw this earlier on the Thom

Hartmann show and tried to find the link--thanks for posting. Bernie will undoubtedly pull in Trump voters as he does it in Vermont all the time.

[kacekwl]

4. Problem is Trump supporters

are so blinded by racism they buy what this guy and the whole GOP is shoveling on them. Nothing they do will ever benefit them because they will do nothing they say they will. Look at the past. No wall will be built, no pay will increase , no jobs will be created , etc. More $$$$$ to the top more bribes to them and so it goes.

[LS_Editor]

5. Chuck Todd is a joke.

It's precisely phony journalists like him who are to blame for keeping Americans ignorant and the wealthy in power.

Seriously, fuck him and his ilk.

[forest444]

6. Nice to see Joe's found religion on the subject of income maldistribution.

After 20+ years of touting Reaganomics as the best thing since sunshine.

[Chakab]

7. Oh please. He's only conceding the failure of Trickle Down Economics to avoid the rule issue of the

seething hate and resentment that his been cultivated among his parties base for the past few decades. That's why they've kept on voting Republican in spite of the fact that they never got anything that they were promised financially.

[MisterP]

8. we were told this in 1981

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/12/the-education-of-david-stockman/305760/

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9. Well 35 years of political fighting has produced worse than zero results, but negative results.

The answer now is clear to me, this election cycle. #feelthebern

[IronLionZion]

10. I thought it was the immigrants stealing our jobs!

Now they finally admit the job creators have moved jobs overseas, do we still need to make America white again just for fun?

They shouldn't detract from the racial hatred burning through many lower income Republican voters that have finally boiled over and gotten out of control. Racial violence and domestic terrorism have increased recently. Often related to the irrational hatred of Obama.

I would worry about how they plan to blame women for their problems if Hillary becomes president. We'll see some spectacular logical somersaults.

Trump has adopted a very old-fashioned policy of keeping some people down so that others may benefit. Assholes have publicly complained that equal opportunity and affirmative action policies have kept the privileged few from the good American office jobs they have always felt entitled to.

Trump's economic plan is also to replace undocumented immigrants with poor urban workers in low paying cash only migrant labor. We'll see how that plays out.