I ' m The saltiest <| sep |> You asked it ? <| sep |> You know I became a big fan of Cruz lately , i gotta say what really sold me is how fucking exhausted he will get , then literally fight through it like exhaustion is some abstract BS in his mind . The man sucks wind between rounds like he ' s about to die . Then he stands up , and moves just as if he was fresh . That ' s just mind blowing to me . I gotta say he ' s probably got one of the strongest mentalities in MMA . <| sep |> How on Earth could you sit there and claim that increasing the share of economic output that is forcibly redistributed through welfare programs , rather than through the market , will not negatively affect economic development ? Because economic output is driven by aggregate demand and consumption . If firms don ' t believe there is a market in which to sell their product , then it doesn ' t matter how appealing you make the supply side of the equation , firms still won ' t produce more if it will just sit unsold . This is why trickle down economics doesn ' t work . Those big tax cuts and incentives given to the rich doesn ' t do shit since the middle class , the engine behind the aggregate demand of an economy , doesn ' t get anything that raises their means for consumption spending . The effect of wealth redistribution on economic output is like a Laffer Curve . From the left , economic output will increase as redistribution increases since you ' re strengthening the middle class . At a certain point this will peak and greater redistribution will hurt economic output because the negative effects will begin to outweigh the positive effects . The question is to determine which side of the Laffer Curve any given economy is on . Since real wages haven ' t risen since the 1980 s , income inequality is skyrocketing , and people are financing their lifestyles with more and more personal debt , I think it ' s an easy argument to make that we ' re on the left side of the peak and that increasing wealth redistribution will raise aggregate demand .