• marcos@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    If it had a definition, it wouldn’t be nonsense, would it?

    “Trickle down economics” is a rhetoric instrument by which people try to convince the public that taxing poor people and fiscally spending in rich people will increase the poor people’s quality of life.

    • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      If it had a definition, it wouldn’t be nonsense, would it?

      It would depend on the definition in question. The term in a vacuum is just a collection of words — what those words mean is rather important, imo.