Why do sooo many people still refuse to believe what economists have shown over and over and yet these nutballs believers keep hanging on to this stupid idea. Maybe, it's their way of letting the wealthy off the hook for not paying their fair share of taxes. Don't get me started on Libertarians. Anyone who claims to be atheist yet continue to sleep with christian conservatives have only shown their total lack of credibility.

Trickle down could work if the corporations did what they were supposed to with any financial assistance or tax breaks but greed short circuits trickle down...

Perhaps we should dust off the old system, trickle up economics, where rich people had slowly amassed wealth by offering something desirable to poorer people.

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer...unless the rich are forced by legislation, to pay more in taxes, and to pay higher wages to their employees, and even then the gap still keeps growing bigger. Legislation would never have been introduced voluntarily by any capitalist governmental system...it took the unionisation of labour and the formation of Trade Unions to force fair wage rate legislation onto the statute books. It’s a complete myth to believe in trickle-down economics benefitting anyone but the rich, who like to flaunt their luxurious lifestyles by keeping their money and spending it gratuitously on themselves and by hiring smart accountants and lawyers to find loopholes in the tax system. They often pay less tax than their cleaners and domestic staff which they actually boast about!

Is there a truly greed proof system? There's always someone in a system who has more than others. In other systems, the individuals in authority still have wealth and there are still those who have nothing. I agree with you, just wondering what is the solution.

To my knowledge there has never been a peer reviewed paper on trickle down economics that has supported its claims. It's simply a fraud. This is why economics text books don't conver it - it simply isn't a thing.

For sure you'll find some biased articles from a right wing think tank or two singing its praises but not anything reputable. It just doesn't work except to enrich the rich and increase income inequality.

Since Reagan trickle down has been given as the best way to stimulate the economy. It has been tried at least eight times and has not worked yet. So I think it would be ok to now state that it will not work again. All this does is give more money to people and corporations who do not need it or know how to do anything but by back stock or put it into bank accounts off shore. Want to stimulate the economy get it to the people who will spend it paying their rent, buying groceries, fixing their car, or feeding their kids and paying bills, not necessarily in that order.