The Lady's not returningFollow

This is correct, yes. But it doesn't happen because the rich man gets wealthier, it happens because the poor people get wealthier and can afford to buy more TV's, so trickle up rather than trickle down. Because if the TV salesman is selling 100 TV's a year and he gets a tax cut he'll just have more money and that's that, if he's selling 100 TV's a year and his customers get a tax cut there will be more people who can afford a TV so his sales are likely to go up which means he's getting more money and possibly hiring more employees to handle the increased amount of customers. So both situations make Mr TV salesman richer, only one of them is beneficial to the poor people buying his TV's.

The whole theory of give the rich tax cuts and they'll invest more leans on the belief that creating the room for more supply will increase supply and demand. It's so obviously wrong you could explain it to a 5 year old.

Edited, Apr 12th 2013 3:52pm by Aethien

I'm hoping mine pays my debt well before I'm dead.

I used to wish her dead, but I must have mellowed, as I can't find any joy in the death of a geriatric woman suffering from advanced dementia. I do, however, retain an anger at her promotion of selfishness, dressed up as "housewife common sense", that tainted a generation and drove class divisions to depths we hadn't seen since the 1st world war.

The economic boom of the early '80s was merely the logical progression of Tony Benn's smart exploitation of North Sea Oil (sorry Scotland), and a generally upbeat western economic climate. What she did achieve was to confine the fiscal benefits to the haves at the expense of the have-nots.

Things I can never forgive her:

• Section 28 was a hateful piece of legislation, and has justly been compared with similar clauses in South Africa's apartheid regime, albeit focused on sexuality rather than race.
• Her belligerent, macho stance on republican terrorism. Throughout her tenure she refused to hold negotiations with anyone associated with republican violence. Another classic, arrogant, misguided principled-but-counter-productive policy. Some of her officials did have covert talks with SF/IRA, but this was against Thatcher's wishes (not blessed by her, as recent revisionists claim). Within a couple of years of her departure, her successor embraced the approach she bluntly rejected and we had the Good Friday Agreement.
• Her support for totalitarian right-wing regimes such as apartheid South Africa (she died condemning Mandela as a filthy terrorist) and Pinochet's Chile to name a few
• The Poll Tax - born from the middle-class delusion that poverty is only a risk for the lazy, and its worst impact is minor inconvenience and maybe having to cut down on a few luxury items.

So many people are commenting from biased (left or right wing) commentaries, not from experience.

The most offensive aspect of the media breast-beating is the fatuous, but repeated view that "You might disagree with her policies, but she stuck by her convictions". WHAT?!
She was wrong, but committed to being wrong. Praise indeed.

and I managed to get through that rant without a single Godwins