@author_matthewflagler: For more than 40 years, we’ve been told that cutting taxes for the wealthy would benefit everyone. More investment. More businesses. More jobs. Higher wages. But did trickle-down economics actually deliver? In this episode of Who Gets Left Behind? | Social Justice in Canada, we’re looking at how tax policy changed in Canada, the United States, and Britain, why politicians embraced supply-side economics, and what decades of research tell us about the results. We’ll explore the history of top marginal income tax rates, the growing gap between worker productivity and compensation, rising income inequality, and what these economic choices might mean for Canada’s social safety net. And we’ll ask a question that deserves a serious answer: If making the wealthy wealthier was supposed to benefit everyone, where did all that prosperity go? This isn’t about punishing success. It’s about examining whether our economy is working for the people who make it possible. Because a wealthy country and a country where ordinary people can afford to live are not necessarily the same thing. 📚 Further reading and viewing: Economic Policy Institute — Productivity–Pay Gap: https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/ David Hope and Julian Limberg — The Economic Consequences of Major Tax Cuts for the Rich (2022), Socio-Economic Review. Capitalism: A Love Story (2009), directed by Michael Moore. 💬 Let’s talk: Do you believe cutting taxes for the wealthy has benefited ordinary Canadians? Or is it time to rethink how we tax income, wealth, and corporate profits? Subscribe for more conversations about economic inequality, poverty, public policy, and social justice in Canada. #socialjustice #taxtherich #trickledowneconomics #incomeinequality

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