As far as I can tell we don't have the wealthiest poor class. Got a reference for that claim?
As to regulation, you are a heretic. The official right-wing line is that business is being stifled by hordes of regulations and we have to deregulate so business can grow and we can give up clean air, clean water, worker safety, and so on.
But whatever, we didn't get to where we are by throwing money at the rich and hoping that it somehow trickles down. It doesn't, as demonstrated by the examples I gave. If you have an example of trickling actually happening post it.
The trickle down scam is relatively recent, first showing up under Reagan. How do you explain the 1950s boom, when the top tax rate was 90%? Where's the huge jump in job numbers we were promised in 2017?
Note that under Trump we've had just a continuation of Obama's rate of job creation.
Where's the jump in GDP growth? Trump’s doing about as well as Obama, and Obama was working with a sick economy.
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