Trickle Down Economics Quotes

“Whatever grace might 'trickle down' from the higher regions of a given society to the lower is no more essential than that which rises and converges from
the opposite direction.”
― Aberjhani, Greeting Flannery O'Connor at the Back Door of My Mind

“I took the book and glanced at the page Guy was reading. I quoted, ‘The rich man’s substance is the wellspring of the poor man’s living.' Ah yes, that theory, that as the rich grow richer their wealth trickles down to the poor like sand. Well, I have been practising law twenty-five years and all I have seen is it trickle ever upwards.”
― C.J. Sansom, Tombland

“It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly.”
― Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

“Not so much a trickle down as a dragging-along.”
― Joel Mokyr, A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy

“If trickle-down economics worked, we would not have four food banks in Kensington and Chelsea.”
― Emma Dent Coad

“The government routinely engages in the theft of taxpayer money by calling it 'Trickle Down Economics’.”
― Steven Magee

“You will know the corrupt government is reforming when it replaces ‘Trickle Down Economics’ with ‘Trickle Up Economics’.”
― Steven Magee

“Ever notice how the same politicians who claim to be against trickle-down economics have no problem bailing out banks and other politically connected businesses?”
― Colin M. McGroarty