The Trickle is Fickle
Back in the seventies, our then-failed-actor-and-future-demented President sat astride his horse (no, not Nancy, the other one) and declared that poverty would end if you put business in charge, on a theory he labeled "trickle-down economics." The idea was that if you got rid of taxes and other restraints on corporations, the "left-over wealth" would trickle down to the less fortunate.
Sure. Left-over wealth. We all got summa that, right?
That was, um, 50 years ago. Are you better off financially today than you were 50 years ago? Not by a long shot, unless you are in one of a very short list of families.
The business class (aka, people who don’t work for a living) still drag that chestnut out for the suckers, and the suckers are still buying it. Trickle-down economics comes with a host of evils: privatization of government functions, infrastructure decay, environmental destruction, etm.
Oh, I hear you, snarling about how private business is always more efficient than government. Yeah – except when it’s not. Our public education system – once a model for much of the rest of the world – is completely gone to shit. You want your kid to get a good education? Good luck. Your choice is some oversized and barely managed classroom where underpaid and barely qualified teachers teach to the State-mandated test, and don’t have time for anything that inspires real thought or any kind of intellectual curiosity. Alternatively, you could send little Jane or Johnny to a voucher school where they will learn about the Lord Jesus Christ and His Prosperity Gospel. Yay, private education!
Worse is yet to come. Wait until some Corporation-paid police officer picks you up, takes you in front of her favorite privately held judge, and you get sent to one of those prisons run by Aramark. Can’t happen, right?
Wait, though – there is some good news on the “trickle-down” front.
Traditionally, the Republican National Committee is a go-to deep pocket for down-ballot candidates in close races. But that was then.
As you may have heard, Don Poorleone has put his crime family in charge of the RNC. As usual, they’ve said the quiet part out loud – all their donations will be spent getting the Don his dicktatership. The left-over wealth will then pass on to state and local candidates.
Which means that would-be Governor and widely despised Mark “Sturmtruppen” Robinson (卐-NC) and his MAGA butt-buddy Michele Morrow (the would-be nail in the coffin of North Carolina education, not the actress) are going to get a taste of how well trickle-down really works.
And that’s your good news for today.