How "Trickle-Down" Really Works

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  1. Reiver

    Reiver Well-Known Member

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    This is also ignorant. We would expect government spending to increase during recession. That is standard. It increases, for example, when a government follows the stupidity of austerity (see Britain's experience). Conservatism naturally creates debt
     
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    Reiver Well-Known Member

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    That you'd think West Germany, with its strong collective bargaining, could be seen as a similar example as Florida also amuses!
     
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    but you said FDR rejected concept?
     
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    1+1=2 West Germany had far more freedom than East Germany; FLA has far more freedom the Cuba. Do you know why West Germany and Florida did/does better???
     
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    most conservatives would like to make federal debt illegal. Do you understand? Truly amazing how brainwashed you are, a libcommie through and through with no sense of perspective at all. Your masters taught you that libcommie was the center of the universe and you cant imagine that they were using you.
     
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    You continue to reply with no content. Austerity created debt. It created debt because it wasn't based on rational macroeconomic policy. It was based on ideological attack by the right.
     
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    Reiver Well-Known Member

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    I keep laughing at your reference to Germany. Their policies would be consistent with your childish "libcommie" rant
     
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    So you feel West Germany had more govt than East Germany?
     
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    if govt debt is illegal, legal govt policies cant create debt. Do you understand now?
     
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    I'm not a fan of communism in any way. But you are referring to a country that has interventionism levels that make Clinton look particularly conservative (and you've used your libcommie rant on her!)
     
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    Austerity created debt. That is historical fact. Do you understand now?
     
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    you've said you are a socialist. Socialism is but a stepping stone to communism.
     
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    if so only because it was legal for it to do so. Most conservatives want to make debt illegal so liberal commie govt can't abuse it.
     
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    odd Germany didn't stop BMW from locating their biggest factory in the world in the USA where there are no libcommie unions to contend with!!
     
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    Cigar Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I understand, you're embarrassed
     
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    how could the libcommie duo Sanders/Hillary possibly look conservative??
     
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    Embarrassed for the retarded democrats? True.
     
  18. Reiver

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    This is just repetition of cretinous claim. Why do you think austerity increased debt? Think before you respond with your libcommie drivel!
     
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    Cigar Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I'm sure you're free to say whatever you want ... it's Ok ... I Understand
     
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    LafayetteBis Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    True enough, it takes some smarts to understand the graphics.

    Wouldn't you be happier on a Message Board ... ?
     
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    I don't know. How about not ignoring two-thirds of the federal budget? Context is important.
     
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    Which budget? There are two, one including non-discretionary spending and the other discretionary. The former is unavoidable expenditures. The latter is far more useful in understanding government-directed policy.

    I have used the Discretionary-budget Infographic - for obvious reasons that you prefer not to comprehend. Which show that the US Federal Government spends 9-times more on the DoD than it does on Education ...
     
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  23. LafayetteBis

    LafayetteBis Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No, but it means you are too thick to understand the point being made and, instead, responded with mindless sarcasm.

    Wouldn't you be happier on a Message Board rather than a debate-forum ... ?
     
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    AND WHAT ABOUT STATE DEBT ...

    We not only have a Federal Debt, but smothered in hidden accounting techniques are State Debts.

    From here (City Journal, 2013): The Indebted States of America
    Excerpt:
    Fiscal revolt in the states? Yeah, I'll believe that when I see it ...
     
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    As Paul Harvey used to say...And now for the rest of the story...
    The primary funding of our public education system is by State and local taxation. About $1.15 trillion total Federal, State and local spending for the 2012-2013 school year or about the same as the entire Federal discretionary budget for FY2017.

    The above gleaned from the U.S. Department of Education web site.
     

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