“‘There are two ideas of government,’ William Jennings Bryan said. ‘There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up and through every class which rests upon them.’”
https://substack.com/@hrichardson/note/p-211514659?r=14j7ia&utm_source=notes-share-action
#USpol #TrickleDown
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