Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the economic theory that financial benefits accorded to big businesses and wealthy investors will pass down to profit smaller businesses and consumers.
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- adjective economics Describing the
theory thatfinancial benefits given to thewealthy will somehow be passed down to thepoor - adjective That flows, especially in limited quantity, from the highly placed to others.
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Examples
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�trickle-down economics� founded on the fundamental principle that if you tax the richest people in a nation even less then they will actually volunteer to pay income tax, spend more of their wealth in the country and, eventually, some of that money will trickle-down to the lower levels in society and, somehow, the money spent will improve the standard of living of the poorest.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
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In Washington, he said, they call trickle-down economics the Ownership Society, but what it really means is you’re on your own.
THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010
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In Washington, he said, they call trickle-down economics the Ownership Society, but what it really means is you’re on your own.
THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010
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In Washington, he said, they call trickle-down economics the Ownership Society, but what it really means is you’re on your own.
THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010
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Many have proposed the idea to decrease taxes on the rich and allow a system called the trickle-down effect to happen, where money and taxes will be dispersed across an entire economic system.
Sam Turer: Increasing the Debt Ceiling Won't Fix the Economy Sam Turer 2012
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U.S. Video: Dorothy Rodham, mother of Hillary Clinton dies U.S. Video: Plane carrying 230 lands without wheels in Poland Report Abuse Don't pee on my head and call it "trickle-down" economics.
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Supply-side economics, popularized by Ronald Reagan, was also called Voo-doo economics by George Bush41, and is now often known as trickle-down economics.
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Politics Video: Obama praises Clinton's mother Dorothy Rodham Politics Video: Obama Talks Oil and Gas With Texas Station KTRK Report Abuse Don't pee on my head and call it "trickle-down" economics.
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That is the view of Geoff Mesher, a forensic accountant whose Transfer Tracker has been watching the diminishing trickle-down from the Premier League to the rest of the football pyramid with a wince.
Chelsea's £50m deal for Fernando Torres worries Uefa | Digger 2011
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This corruption, he said, "has a trickle-down effect to every single religious community in the world."
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