Rethugs Suddenly Realize, "It's the Economy, Stupid"

[JackLuis]

Joe Scarborough gives up the game: After 30 years, the GOP base realized ‘it never trickles down’

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.”

With the Rethuglican Party shattered, even the pundits are suddenly becoming aware that "Money talks, Bullshit Walks". The Kool-aid is wearing off.

 

[Comshaw]

You know you're going to get the old "trickle down" argument don't you? After all, reduce taxes on the wealthy and the economy gets better, jobs appear, wages grow....oh wait.....my bad. It seems the millennials are making the same wages their parents did 30 years ago.......hmmmmmmmm.......

"...A 30-year-old millennial earns roughly the same as what a 30-year-old earned 30 years ago, according to a new study from the Center for American Progress.

The wage stagnation is demoralizing when the differences are vast. Millennials today “are 50 percent more likely to have finished college and that they work in an economy that is 70 percent more productive,” but a weak recovery and a shift in the labor market has kept starting salaries low, the report notes...."

More here: http://redalertpolitics.com/2016/03/07/young-workers-earning-wages-30-years-go/


Comshaw

 

[Comshaw]

And just in case someone starts to argue the top workers took most of the wage increases (ala the last paragraph of the quoted page): why the monetary disparity growth between the top 1% and everyone else?

http://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/styles/downsample150to92/public/atoms/files/10-26-15pov-f2.png?itok=SX2A7P3X


Comshaw

 

[someoneyouknow]

One need only look at Kansas as the premier example of trickel-down failure. A $1 billion turnaround in their budget in just over a year, all thanks to Republicans who keep doing the same thing over and over and getting the same result.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

One need only look at Kansas as the premier example of trickel-down failure. A $1 billion turnaround in their budget in just over a year, all thanks to Republicans who keep doing the same thing over and over and getting the same result.

Einstein's definition of insanity on display.

 

[Busybody]

Einstein's definition of insanity on display.

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