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Back Porch Files: The Horse, the Sparrow, and the Lie of Trickle-Down
In this Friday edition of Back Porch Files, Don takes on the decades-old promise behind trickle-down economics: feed the people at the top, and prosperity will eventually make its way down to everyone else. Using the old “horse-and-sparrow” metaphor, this episode looks at what supply-side economics actually promises, what the evidence says about growth, wages, and income distribution, why wealth created at the top does not automatically become broadly shared prosperity, and why the same basic economic logic keeps returning under new names. The horse has been fed for decades. The question is…
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