In 125 words, briefly explain the concept of trickle-down economics.

             The whole point of the trickle down economy is that by lowering taxes on the rich will increase jobs for the middle class like you said. Their logic is that the more wealth a business owner (like yourself) has, the more likely they will create jobs to help the middle class. But there is a fundamental problem with this effect. It assumes that business owners will invest in the US economy. And this simply won't happen like you described, because the returns for investing in the US economy are not as high compared to foreign markets. What you described is trickle up economics, where if the middle class has more money to spend, they will spend it, as opposed to the more wealthy upper class, which choose more times than not to invest their surplus funding. It has been proven time and time again that trickle down economic theory does not work. Bush, Reagan, Kennedy all advocated this policy, but really only the middle class ended up worse off.

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