When can we declare the Supply Side experiment a failure?

[Creideiki]

It's been 30 years.

Do we need to wait 50? 100?

Until there's a Republican in the White House?

[Broderick]

1. Well, our new jobs program we have to have pass

Is more trickle down stimulus in my opinion. We never learn.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. They keep on with the experiment.

No one, and I do mean no one, is going to end it.

[Mojambo]

3. I think my main gripe with Obama has been how much he buys into this dogma

And he's far from alone in the Democratic party.

[HughBeaumont]

7. He's far from alone *on this board*.

Amazing how many people think Supply Side (the nailed-shut heart of modern capitalism) will work if we would only throw even more fairness into this grinder.

[TheKentuckian]

4. 40 years ago...give or take.

[mmonk]

5. It's obvious it is but as long as the parties benefit

from the dollars of big business into their campaign chests, we are lost. This is government without representation, even when the average Joe is fooled by the pervasive propaganda and votes for 1% rule.

[TomClash]

6. It wasn't an experiment

It was a license to steal.

[Ezlivin]

8. Still collating data

That's what they say.

That's what "Mother" in "Alien" said.

The end result will be the same.

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. Unfortunately, it works for some people.

But you want to know the truth about supply side? It only works if they're allowed to cheat.

[vi5]

10. Never, now that Democrats have embraced it.

That's it. Close the book because despite the fact that all the actual data and numbers and history shows that it has been a failure, the fact that every Democrat in any position of power, including and especially the ones now advocating more tax cuts, less regulation, and trade agreements has legitimized it by giving it at best tacit support and at worst a full on passionate embrace with a wet sloppy kiss has pretty much ruined any chance of it ever going away as the conventional wisdom.

[deutsey]

11. I thought 2008 was finally going to wake a lot of people up

Perhaps it would have if there had been someone to give the supply side corpse a proper eulogy.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Scholarly Works, Peer Reviewed Have Done Just That

Problem is, that side of the aisle is uninterested in facts and reason. They believe what they believe and that's that.

The econometric evidence and data analysis is irrelevant.
GAC

[Sentath]

16. Thank you

Its interesting to hear from reality now and then ( ;

[ProfessorGAC]

17. Alas, The Truth I've Spoken Is Painful

The continued pursuit of a theory that's been disproven seems to be their raison d'etre.
GAC

[Blue_Tires]

13. It's a great success for the people at the top...

why do you think they promoted it?

[FiveGoodMen]

14. It's not an experiment, it's just a rip-off.

The PTB know what they're doing: screwing the rest of us.

The Fox-watchers will never figure out they've been had.

The Obama fanatics won't be against trickle-down as long as their dear leader pushes for it.

The rest of us know better but are powerless to stop it.

[demigoddess]

15. +1000%

please

[dtexdem]

18. Oh, how about around 1980?

Yeah, that seems right.

[Javaman]

19. when the rich and the corporations no longer control our government. nt

[Atypical Liberal]

20. When there is no longer a supply side in the United States.

The fact is that the supply siders won.

"Supply Side" means the side of Big Business, the side of wealth. And they won. They have bought and paid for their representation in Congress. They make sure that all policy decisions benefit them. This will continue until there is no demand side left. Then the Supply Side will move on to other countries and greener pastures.

[Johonny]

21. It's working for 1 % of society

what not good enough for you :)