Tinkle-down economics
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“Basically, if you give Ronald Reagan lots of beer, enough will tinkle down to water the lawn.”
~ Oscar Wilde on Tinkle-down economics
The tinkle-down effect, also known as tinkle-down economics, is a central part of the wider theory of supply-side economics as applied by Ronald Reagan and other followers of supply-side Jesus. This effect provides the standard explanation as to how it is that the more money people give to these followers, the better off everybody is.
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[edit] Theory
The basic premise of the tinkle-down effect is that money given to rich people eventually tinkles down to the middle-class and to the lower classes, because people who are richer than God spend amazing quantities of money on stupid things, which, generally speaking, involve getting people who aren't rich to humiliate themselves in exchange for money. This entertainment value of this cannot be overstated, and absurdly rich people rarely get bored.
For relatively braindead people, the standard way to get rich is the old-fashioned way, namely inheritance. The observation that these people find amusement in especially uncreative forms of lower-class humiliation, often involving urination, lead to the term tinkle-down effect.
[edit] History
While the general concept that everyone benefits by giving rich people money to spend on stupid things is at least as old as supply-side Jesus, the origin of the specific term tinkle-down effect is believed to trace to a speech by Ronald Reagan. In any case is most closely tied to Reaganomics, and was initially used to justify such things as tax cuts for the wealthy. Later it was used to justify buying lots and lots of missiles, then buying Star Wars, and then ultimately it was invoked to justify giving almost all money to Reagan himself so that he could tinkle down on everything.
