Rich people who have all the money they need

[edhopper]

will work like the dickens to get more and more, even when they have more than they can ever spend.

Poor people who are given just enough to live on will stop working to have anything better.

But if we take a fractionally bigger percent in taxes from the rich, they will stop producing.


This message is brought to you by the republican Party.

[Populist_Prole]

1. An incredible double standard isn't it?

They do so with no sense of irony whatsoever. The whole supply-side meme isn't even defended on logical grounds; to its adherants, it's an article of faith...and they have to have faith in it; because it doesn't work, never did, and never will.

[edhopper]

2. Part of the blame is the media

for treating it like a difference of opinion and not bothering with facts.

[Populist_Prole]

3. Absolutely so

Plus, their inveterate desire to consider the middle position to be reasonable, regardless of how far right one side is.

[Initech]

4. I heard it this way:

There's 12 pies on a table. The CEO takes 11 and 3/4 of all the pies, and we're supposed to fight for what's left of that 3/4.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Look out, Atlases be shruggin' all over the place.