
Trickle-Down Economics Has Always Been a Scam
Despite being proven wrong time and again, trickle-down economics keeps limping forward, resurrected by governments to justify tax cuts for the rich with false promises of prosperity for all.
Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
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