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This excellent visual representation of that old scam, “trickle down economics”, has been all over Twitter recently.

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And then the glass on top gets too big and too full and all the other little glasses below it break and then they all shatter.

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And the big glass blames the little glasses for not working hard enough to hold it up.

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*SLAMS THE REBLOG BUTTON*

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Trickle down economy has been attempted 3 times in US history and each time it ended in disaster. 1929 was the great depression, 1968 had a massive recession and then there was the great recession of 2008. Don’t let anyone tell you it works because it doesn’t.