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.
I love how we need studies to know that a corporations are greedy and giving them more money means they’re just getting more money to give to their shareholdes, no one else 😂
I hate it too. Its obvious but having the hard facts proven over and over again is a method for beating it into the brains of the populace. Its good that they’re doing these studies, its better when they’re loud as fuck about the results each time. I’m sure there is plenty overlap between teaching adults and teaching children.
Maybe I’m cynical but I just don’t think any amount of facts are going to change the fact that next quarter’s earnings report needs to be higher than last quarter.
It’s always worth it to have scientific data backing information that “everyone” already knows.