Jakki wrote:
.....the trickle down idea.....
Yup. In Victorian times it was known as the "horse and sparrow" theory - i.e. if you feed a horse with enough oats, they eventually come out of its other end undigested, and the sparrows get a free meal. Why anybody would be convinced by an analogy, when analogies prove nothing, I don't know. But assuming it's a valid analogy, the sparrows would have to pick their food out of excrement, and the horse would become bloated and ill. Which is strangely like real life. Eliminate the horse, and there's no problem, except for the horse community, who are probably better off dead anyway.