Trickle down don't work

[aveatry]

Our 10 lb capon from a local family butcher was way cheaper. A bargain at £70.

Why does a big chicken cost £70, you could buy 7 organic free range chickens for that and everyone at your Christmas table could have a leg

 

[morqthana]

Obviously it works.

OK - cite some examples where it has.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Whether enough trickles down or not is debatable, but it's an absolute fact that it does happen.

So does it work or doesn't it ?

 

[morqthana]

Why does a big chicken cost £70, you could buy 7 organic free range chickens

An organic free-range chicken for £10 isn't going to be very big, which limits its usefulness. Plus cooking that many at once in a domestic oven to have them all done at the same time would be at best a nightmare.

Get up into the 1.6 -1.8kg range and one bird will do 3 meals for 2 people with very little faff, plus the stock you can make and freeze for later use.

 

[Brigadier]

Very good self-awareness

Obviously it works. Rich people get highly taxed, and this goes into public spending that largely benefits those less well off. If nobody was taxed or received benefits then rich people would be richer, and poor people would be poorer.

Whether enough trickles down or not is debatable, but it's an absolute fact that it does happen.

If you taxed "the rich" until they were paying out more than they were receiving then they'd stop doing whatever they were doing. E.g. closing businesses (making all staff redundant), removing investments from the UK (leading to more businesses closing). This makes everyone poorer. In fact you don't have to imagine, it's already happening in the UK.

What you are describing is the every opposite of trickle down.

 

[morqthana]

Whether enough trickles down or not is debatable

No, it actually isn't "debatable".

 

[securespark]

Why does a big chicken cost £70, you could buy 7 organic free range chickens for that and everyone at your Christmas table could have a leg

You moaned that M and S sold a turkey for a ton 20. I gave you a much better alternative: a great tasting bird reared well and more importantly you're supporting a family butcher, not a chain. And for far less money yet you're still moaning...

 

[morqthana]

So does it work or doesn't it ?

No.

 

[aveatry]

You moaned that M and S sold a turkey for a ton 20. I gave you a much better alternative: a great tasting bird reared well and more importantly you're supporting a family butcher, not a chain. And for far less money yet you're still moaning...

Nothing cleaver about eating a castrated male chicken,,/cock, that many are calling for the process to be banned

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

OK, let's get fundamental... What does "don't work" mean? (ignoring the dodgy grammar!)

My definition is that it means that some of the money made by rich people ends up with less well-off people. Of course some of it does - they pay taxes, buy stuff and employ people.

 

[aveatry]

OK, let's get fundamental... What does "don't work" mean? (ignoring the dodgy grammar!)

My definition is that it means that some of the money made by rich people ends up with less well-off people. Of course some of it does - they pay taxes, buy stuff and employ people.

You have to remember that the likes of notch are marxist/communist and want everyone to be equally poor except for the elite of which he thinks he is

 

[morqthana]

Nothing cleaver about eating a castrated male chicken,,/cock, that many are calling for the process to be banned

It already is in the UK.

No or mint sauce with lamb, loads of rosemary and garlic but no mint sauce. Dont get the "oh it cuts through the fat" -- I dont want the fat cutting through - I want the fat thank you.

I take it that you check with your butcher or supermarket that the lamb you buy isn't from a castrated animal?

And beef.

 

[Brigadier]

My definition......

Which means Jack schitt.

Although you've recognised so, and have amended it slightly

 

[Brigadier]

Of course some of it does - they pay taxes, buy stuff and employ people

Except for those who do not pay tax, employ anyone, or spend anything beyond the average pleb.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

OK, let's get fundamental... What does "don't work" mean? (ignoring the dodgy grammar!)

My definition is that it means that some of the money made by rich people ends up with less well-off people. Of course some of it does - they pay taxes, buy stuff and employ people.

And by the same token a lot of the money of the less well off ends up in the hands of the very well off.

Pouring up works much better than trickle down.