Two new reports published Tuesday by the Roosevelt Institute argue that robust corporate taxation is key to creating a strong economy and improving the well-being of families and children—objectives that have been undermined in the decades since the Reagan era by regressive tax cuts enacted on the false premise that benefits would "trickle down" to the rest of society.
This implies any of the amoral, unempathetic people responsible for this ideology actually gave a flying fuck about “the people”.
It was a grift. It was always a grift. The rich and people of power have been doing this sort of thing for millennia.