Reaganomics in one sentence:

[Smith_3]

The poor should eat the crumbs that fall off of the table of the rich.

[alsame]

1. Yes, the term 'trickle down' made it very clear what their

priorities were. I'm surprised more people weren't ever offended by the term. I sure was.

[JFN1]

4. Usually thinks that trickle down

are not good...

[HopeHoops]

5. Trickle down worked fine - I sure got pissed on by Reaganomics!

[kenny blankenship]

12. That's why they denied that their policy was in fact just the old "trickle-down" idea

People would be offended by the "trickle down" label and would resist changes made to the tax code if "trickle down" was used as a justification, so they called it Supply-Side Theory instead. They said it was something completely new and the hot academic theory that was ahead of its time rather than a relic from the 1920s. But Reagan's budget director, David Stockman, admitted that supply side tax cuts were nothing more than the old trickle down theory in interviews with William Greider, and that the promotion of middle class tax cuts were not based in any theory but were simply a "Trojan Horse" used to obtain the whopping reduction of the top marginal tax bracket for the rich. The Education Of David Stockman.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/198112/david-stockman/5

People would have been offended but people didn't read and when the govt said it was handing out "free money" they didn't ask questions. Now we're history's largest debtor nation and must go even deeper into the hole to stave off total collapse.

[alsame]

13. Yep. People didn't read and didn't ask questions. Sadly, not

much has changed because I know people in the lower income brackets who are still praising GOP tax cuts.

[calimary]

2. In five letters: IGMFU. Stands for "I Got Mine, F-U!"

And the higher you are on the corporate ladder, the more it applies.

[Graybeard]

3. Voodoo.

Poppa Bush exposed it but Raygun quickly shut him up by making him VP.

[BR_Parkway]

6. Trickle down = Piss on You, I got Mine

[B Calm]

15. That trickle down was the same color as Rush Limbaugh's microphone!

[HughBeaumont]

7. Ego Iran Scam.

Maniac's Gore.

No matter how you scramble it, it's bad news.

[MrPerson]

8. One word - Asshattery

[EFerrari]

9. Butchery. n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

10. Reaganomics in three words:

Piss on you.

[Octafish]

11. Reverse Robin Hood

It's just like Haiti.

[Golden Raisin]

14. More like

I've got mine and you can fucking starve in the streets.

[Urban Prairie]

16. Ronald Wilson Reagan

Reaganomics=666: The mark of the beast.