Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Tag: trickle-down economics

Harris breaks with Biden on capital gains tax based on ‘failed...

Speaking to supporters, Harris emphasized the importance of supporting investment in small businesses and innovation while ensuring that the wealthy pay their fair share.

Does trickle-down economics actually work?

Making big corporations and the rich even richer through tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks doesn’t make the rest of us better off.

The end of trickle-down economics

Percolate-up economics works. Trickle-down does not.

Trickle-down economics doesn’t work but build-up does—is Biden listening?

Trickle-down economics is a cruel hoax. The benefits of build-up economics are real.

How Trump’s war on regulation is trickle-down economics

Trump’s attack on regulation is just another form of trickle-down economics – where the gains go the top, and the risks and losses trickle down.

Why making American corporations more competitive doesn’t help most Americans

Restoring corporations' “competitive edge” has little or nothing to do with helping American workers.

The true path to prosperity

Growth doesn’t “trickle down.” It rises up.

What is the true cost of inequality?

Americans, in effect, are each paying what amounts to an “inequality tax.”

Trump’s trickle-down populism

Trickle-down economics dressed in populist garb is still trickle-down economics.

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Constitution Center at 400 7th Street SW in Washington, which houses the headquarters of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Photo by Tim1965 / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Bank regulator clears a Trump family crypto venture to open a national trust bank

The OCC's own decision letter records four commenters raising conflict-of-interest objections involving the president and his family, and the agency placing most of those questions outside the scope of its review.
A Renaissance fresco of the biblical flood with the ark afloat

‘My religion’s better than yours’ – so there!

To fix all truths on realms invisible Strikes skeptics as inadmissible.
Abdul El-Sayed talking with voters at a campaign meet-and-greet

“Moderates” Support Extreme Injustice

The label goes to candidates who back endless war and block Medicare for All, while a CNN poll now finds a third of Democrats calling themselves socialists. Scolding them as interlopers plays well with donors and nowhere else.
The Lorain County Administration Building in Elyria, Ohio, where the county commissioners meet and striking Job and Family Services workers have picketed. Photo by WeaponizingArchitecture / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Lorain County caseworkers reach day 180 of a strike over a dollar an hour

Union officials told the bargaining chair the walkout may be the longest in Ohio public sector history, a claim the county's newspaper could not confirm. Commissioners point to an $11 million deficit.
The Bears Ears National Monument landscape in southeastern Utah. Photo by Mike McGlew - Mcglewm / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Mining executives bought stock in their own firm days before Trump shrank Bears Ears

House Democrats have opened an investigation for insider trading.