Yes. We are trying to raise wages for those at the bottom by increasing opportunities for those at the top to make money. You understand we're all in this together, right? You can't punish the top earners to benefit the bottom earners. It doesnt work that way.
Democrats are intent on making everyone equal--poor and miserable.
Trickle Down. Yeah, that's proven to be effective!
Since "trickle down" appears to be the limit of your understanding on the subject any response is futile. But we try: punish business creators and you get less business. Less business equals fewer jobs. Fewer jobs equals less demand for labor. Less demand for labor equals lower wages. Lower wages equals stagnation.
I have summed up the results of eight years' of Democrat policies in one paragraph.
The intentions of the policy are to make the rich richer and then maybe, just maybe the rich will shed some largess upon those who made them rich by granting higher wages and benefits.
But do the rich do that? Or do they sequester their wealth in off shore accounts to avoid taxation? And once that wealth is off shore, does it circulate through the economy creating opportunity? Or does it fund off shore business? Does it flow to China?
Face it. Coddling the rich does only that. It does not precipitate downward to the workers who are responsible for the cash flow to the wealthy.
He's right. You don't understand it.
If, as you say, you want to improve the middle class wage situation, that means you have to have jobs that pay middle class wages. The poor certainly do NOT provide any wages, let alone in the middle class range.
And while your at it, try getting your head around the notion that the middle class also loses jobs when the country becomes so regulated that a business can't sneeze without violating 3 dozen federal regulations.