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James Talarico: “Trickle down economics is not a theory. It is theft.”

Featuring: James Talarico, Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 50

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Published | Video Starts at 07:05

And the best way to motivate the rest of us is to take it away someday. Somehow they told us the gains would trickle down to the rest of us. Trickle down economics is not a theory. It is theft. For 50 years, for 50 years, billionaire mega donors and their puppet politicians have been stealing from the American people, stealing the wealth that we created with their bribes, their bailouts and their billionaire tax breaks. (07:05–07:11)

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Asserts that trickle-down economics is equivalent to theft.

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