To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (651046 ) 4/11/2012 2:38:22 PM From: puborectalis 1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) | Respond to The economist John Kenneth Galbraith noted that "trickle-down economics" had been tried before in the United States in the 1890s under the name "horse and sparrow theory." He wrote, "Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: 'If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.'" Galbraith claimed that the horse and sparrow theory was partly to blame for the Panic of 1896 . [15] During this period, in his Cross of Gold speech , Democrat William Jennings Bryan said:Keynesian economics and related theories often criticize tax rate cuts for the wealthy as being "trickle down," arguing tax cuts directly targeting those with less income would be more economically stimulative. Keynesians generally argue for broad fiscal policies that are direct across the entire economy, not toward one specific group.1992 presidential election , Independent candidate Ross Perot called trickle-down economics "political voodoo ." [16] New Zealand , Labour Party MP Damien O'Connor has, in the Labour Party campaign launch video for the 2011 general election , called trickle-down economics "the rich pissing on the poor".
