Wednesday, September 05, 2012  This Is Not a Love Song  This is
not class warfare.  This is economics.  And we should be able,
as a nation of reasonable people, to discuss it calmly and
maturely.  I've been waiting for the GOP to offer up an
explanation for why trickle-down, or supply-side, or (as one of
their own called it) "voodoo" economics hasn't truly been
disproved. That exact theory would seem to describe what Romney
and Ryan are, again, offering as the solution to what ails the
country : decreased taxes on the wealthiest among us, decreased
regulation and cuts to government programs, as a means to spark
the economy, create new jobs, usher in a new era of growth, and
supposedly therefore benefit everyone.   But this has been
tried, and tried, under various names since Reagan. Over those
thirty years, it hasn't actually worked. The money doesn't
actually trickle down. It defies gravity and keeps rising up.
As Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz points out in
his new book "The Price of Inequal