The Trickle Down Theory is like someone taking an orange and squeezing a few drops in a glass and selling it to us and we are suppose to be happy about it when they have a whole tree full oranges and they could never eat it all before things go bad.
The greater the gap between the top 1% and the rest of us the more corruption comes about.
The reason for high compensation for executive is so companies can attract the best and the brightest, the huge bonuses and the best health care are so they won't move to a competitor, however I guess they don't want increase pay anyone who works to create the prosperity for them and should have to get pay cuts because of the economy. Don't they want to attract the best and the brightest teachers and technicians by the same reasoning as they use for the executives by rewarding them. One parent use to be able to support a family, but now they can't.
Too often the top 1% have more than they can use in several life times and the small increase in tax hardly effects their life, but the extra money would help countless people. The shared sacrifice is their pocket change.

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