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Reaganomics tripled the national debt, increased class divide (since all of those income increases people like to wank over only went to the rich) and fucked up our homeless shelters and psychiatric hospitals. For minimal job growth at best.

I understand the core concept of trickle-down but it has NEVER proven itself to do anything other than keep the rich richer. Where are those fucking jobs?

EDIT: I do apologize for the "stupid" comment, that was out of line. I'm just in a shaky mood because my new president wants to deport my ass.

And I also should admit my total weakness in not having a true alternative to offer. I'm a socialist by heart but for the United States to switch to a socialist economy would require an absolute upheaval of how it currently stands, and that will NEVER happen. And then there's the flaw in THAT since socialist economies are pretty unproven on a scale as large as the United States (all successful socialist economies are for small as fuck countries and the big "socialist" countries... lol).

It's funny, that economics class comment, I've taken both econs (level 1) and all they fucking talk about is TDE, but so long as historical evidence points to it not working I'm not fully accepting of whatever those teachers taught me.