更宏观地看来，共和党/特朗普的议程 — — 其税收削减甚至比标准的共和党方案更为偏袒富人 — — 意味着这些政策都是基于涓滴繁荣（富人多赚钱消费从而穷人有工作）的理念，也是里根时代供给侧经济学政策的延续 — — 但这一政策从未奏效过。
More broadly, the Republican/Trump agenda, with its tax cuts even more weighted toward the rich than the standard GOP recipe would imply, is based on the idea of trickle-down prosperity – a continuation of the Reagan era’s supply-side economics, which never actually worked.