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The First Theory Is That If We Make The Rich Richer, Somehow They Will Let A Part Of Their Prosperity Trickle Down To The Rest Of Us.
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The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will
let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us.
-- Franklin D Roosevelt, campaign address, Detroit, Michigan, October 2,
1932
Related:
Reduce taxes on rich = trickle down prosperity. -- Conservative idea #4
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933...
It is said that Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo because he forgot his infantry---he staked too much upon the more spectacular but less substantial cavalry.
The present administration in Washington provides a close parallel....
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear.
We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction....
About the campaign in Detroit to "Stamp out the Beatles," John Lennon said
"We have a campaign to stamp out Detroit!...
Trickle down theory -- when the $$$ go from George to Neil.
One sure way to determine the social conscience of a Government is to examine the way taxes are collected and how they are spent.
And one sure way to determine the social conscience of an individual is to get his tax-reaction....
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
-- Franklin D. Roosevel...
Franklin D. Roosevelt = New Deal ** William B. Clinton = Raw Deal