Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 03, 2019

Here we go again, the same old “trickle down” scam that has never worked.

Didn’t work under Hoover.

Didn’t work under Bush.

Not working under Trump.

Or maybe it has worked perfectly for its true purpose, just the way they designed it — to REDISTRIBUTE the wealth produced by middle class working people to the few richest elites who already have the most while pretending it is supposed to help working people and the middle class.

It does NOT work the way scam artists try to sell it to gullible suckers.

It works perfectly for billionaire CON men.

Well, Voodoo is a recognized religion.

Don’t go crazy-fan over European football, though. They riot and kill people over there over rivalries!

Economic policy straight out of the devil’s lair. Conservatives pitch the scam earning a life time of damnation but all the money to burn.

Trump is an un-recognized religion.

It has Disciples who worship their Messiah.

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It is an offshoot of evangelical Christianity where mulligans have been substituted for principles and morals.

He will be renowned among historic leaders as Buttercup, the ‘Twitterpated’, thus giving the term a whole new prominence in the lexicon.

A week of Bob is a great week. Thank you. (Though lawyers never “take,” they do “withdraw” and “retract” a lot.)

Abiding by the rules is will avoid talking zealotry. NBA anyone?

Yup, the government supports the businesses that support the politicians, not necessarily the government, but the politicians. Buying a few key politicians is way cheaper than paying taxes like the rest of us. As it is, it has always been. Keep complaining. It is about all we can do.

The only stuff that trickles down you don’t want to be sitting in.

didn’t work under Reagan

There are three topics that one should never talk about in the office: sex, politics and religion. So down here on “Tobacco Row” – talk about ACC Basketball is forbidden. It is as good as sex, as controversial as politics and people definitely believe in it.

So who’s that behind the bar?

“There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it.” – William Jennings Bryan, 1896

Well, “Religion” AND “Supply Side Economics” ARE both just fantasies for weak-willed goobers to believe in, so…

in some states sports is a religion.

What does work is eliminating the barriers to business so it can grow and add employees, which Trump did. The Trump-haters don’t like it, but he did put more people to work than any Democrat President and helped more leave welfare than any.

“Conservatives say if you don’t give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they’ve lost all incentive because we’ve given them too much money.” —George Carlin

DD I don’t know who you are either, but if Warren is looking for a VP candidate, cabinet member, or whatever, let her know you have my endorsement. No, she has no idea who I am, either, but I bet I could get some support behind that idea.

It has always been this way. The powerful take. The poor cry for help and the middle get squeezed both way…by those who take and those the middle takes pity on.

Ah, getting the day off to a putrid start!

Fine. Let’s redistribute the wealth and call it a day. #AllHailComradePutin

ALL politics is religion – based on faith, perception, and preconceived explanations; with any additional facts used to bolster the existing belief paradigm.

The only true trickle-down that works is when the CEO pees off of the penthouse balcony.

Um; for going on 2500+ years now, it’s always has been and will be “the haves, and the have nots”

Preach it DD! All the ignorant Trump supporters, unfortunately, will never understand or want to even when their noses have been repeatedly rubbed in it! Your “likes” far outnumber theirs and you have a lot of intelligent “likers” (including myself/blush)…

Trickle Down and Supply Side Economics – what a joke! Imagine that people who have lots of money being able to create new jobs and spend more money and thinking it would help others! Lets go with socialism and bleed the rich dry and give their money to everyone else. That has worked in many other countries…hasn’t it?

You’ll notice all the Trump Disciple responses to DD Wiz are very small, both in the figurative and literal sense.

Most of them could fit onto a bumper sticker, again both figuratively and literally.

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The quality of their responses matches the depth of their analysis skills.

Mr. Miller: You are a very clever and intelligent man with a large following. It is very easy to be an armchair quarterback and criticize the plays that other attempt. Perhaps you could put your skills and influence to work by giving us some cartoons with solid suggestions as to what might help our country? I triple-dog dare you!

Egonomics instead of economics. The rich and corporations game the system to stroke their ego’s with more money. With more money comes more power through campaign contributions (bribes), which means more money. Stagnant wages for the workers and ballooned wages for CEOs and upper management. Rinse and repeat.

Voodoo.