Trickle Down Economics is a Cruel Hoax

From Robert Reich, influential economist and former Department of Labor Secretary:

Contrary to what you hear from Republicans and Fox News, this bill will NOT help the economy. Over the last 50 years, Congress has passed four major tax cuts, and every single one proved that “trickle-down economics” is nothing but a cruel hoax.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office confirms that if this bill becomes law, those in the bottom tenth of the income distribution will end up poorer, while the top tenth will be substantially richer.

Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all except to benefit those with wealth and power.

Senate Chamber Feels Like a “Crime Scene”

After passage of the One Big Brutal Bill Act, which takes benefits and wealth from the vast majority of the American people to give it to the very wealthy and corporations, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said this on the floor of the Senate:

This place feels to me, today, like a crime scene. Get some of that yellow tape and put it around this chamber. This piece of legislation is corrupt. This piece of legislation is crooked. This piece of legislation is a rotten racket. This bill cooked up in back rooms, dropped at midnight, cloaked in fake numbers with huge handouts to big Republican donors. It loots our country for some of the least deserving people you could imagine. When I first got here, this chamber filled me with awe and wonderment. Today, I feel disgust.

Congressman Fitzpatrick, Your Vote Will Not Be Forgotten

Dear Congressman Fitzpatrick,

If you vote for the Senate version of the legislation you already supported once—an act that harms working families while enriching the ultra-wealthy—we will not forget. Your name will be linked with:

  • The Americans stripped of Medicaid coverage

  • Seniors losing access to essential Medicare services

  • Hungry children left without food assistance

  • A reckless explosion of the national debt

  • Expanded funding for cruel and unaccountable immigration enforcement, creating a police state

  • Big Oil getting $18 billion in new handouts while wind and solar programs would be gutted by additional taxes. Humanity is rushing toward a climate cliff, and MAGA is jamming its foot on the gas pedal.

All of this to deliver even more wealth to those who need it least.

You face a choice: stand with your constituents—or with a party leadership that has abandoned basic decency.

We are watching. We are organizing. And we will hold you accountable.

Choose wisely,
The Voters of Bucks County