MSNBC’s John Harwood Tries Mocking GOP ‘Trickle Down Economics,’ Turns into Sputtering Mess

‘The analyses we’ve seen so far suggest that this may make it worse’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
VELSHI: "That feels like trickledown economics to me.”
HARWOOD: "What's that?”
VELSHI: "That feels like trickledown economics to me.”
HARWOOD: "That is exactly what he's arguing. He says it works. And the question is when you look back over the record of what happened since the 1980s through the Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Obama administrations, when you look at those, has wealth become more spread evenly through the society or not? Actually, we've seen that under the democratic presidents. Deficit has declined more. And incomes have done better under all the while however, inequality continues to rise. And the analyses we've seen so far is this makes it work.”
 

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