"What this photo doesn't note is that "trickle down economics" was named by David Stockman, regressive right wing darling Ronald Reagan's budget director, to define their new economic policies way back when. Which means that "trickle down economics" have had 8 years of Reagan, 4 years of Bush1, and 8 years of Bush2, giving us a combined total of 20+ years of attempting to make trickle-down economics work... Which proves to everyone that trickle'down economics (which I prefer to call "crony capitalism" was a bunch of BS designed to put more money in the pockets of the rich, taking it from the pockets of the poor... as Stockman admitted in his book "The Triumph Of Politics: The Inside Story of the Reagan Revolution"