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Because it absolutely has been used by politicians and pundits since the 1980s into the present day and you’re the one spreading falsehoods.

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It is talked about by its opponents. No one on the right uses the phrase except in response.

Try and find some examples

Isn't it great how, once the idiocy of trickle-down has become widely known, one can continue pushing the same ideas by merely calling it something else?

Such a neat trick!

We are not talking about which phrase the Right uses today. The idea of trickle-down is what our current taxes are based on. There's no need to call it anything; obstructionism suffices

I'm not well read, but didn't the latest taxes pushed by the right benefit the middle class disproportionately? Wouldn't trickle down imply there should be no tax breaks at all for hte middle class, and instead the entirety of those breaks should go to the investment class?

https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publication...

(I am assuming this is a right biased publication, again not well read, genuinely curious because it seems to line up with those middle class I know who were Trump supporters -- they regularly cite their lower taxes).

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/derided-by-critics-trick...

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