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RUSH: Bill in Cedar Park, Texas, great to have you. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How are you doing today, Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m very well, sir. Grazie. Thank you for calling.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Just wanted to get with you real quick. I\u2019ve been thinking about this. You know, Obama is talking about this trickle-up economy, and for the life of me I just can\u2019t imagine anybody\u2019s thought process as to a trickle-up economy. The only thing that I can compare it to which does work in this business, quote, unquote, is the Mafia. When you think about it, everybody\u2019s gotta pay for security and all this stuff —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait just a second. You\u2019re bouncing off something Obama said that trickle-up doesn\u2019t work?<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: No, no. Obama is saying trickle-up works, and it can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah, Obama said trickle-up works. The left believes that the rich get rich off the poor. They convince the poor to spend all of their money on the rich, and the rich end up getting rich that way. The math has had never worked out on that for me, but that\u2019s what they claim. Yeah, you\u2019re right. Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And that\u2019s the thing that I\u2019ve tried to bang my head against the wall to try to figure out, but the only business, quote, unquote, that works is the Mafia, because everybody\u2019s having to pay everybody higher up on the chain for their protection and whatever services they\u2019re rendering to.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Loan sharking, protection rackets, bookies, numbers, yeah. Everybody is trickling up to the Mafia. I get your point. The Mafia, yeah<\/a>, ain\u2019t a whole lot that trickles down there. That\u2019s a good point.<\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know, unions are also trickle-up. The government is trickle-up. That would be taxes. It\u2019s not just the Mafia. You have other similar type organizations that are able to demand and coerce and commandeer things from people. Government does it. Unions do it. It\u2019s not a surprise Obama would use unions and government as his business model. Remember in socialism, the powerful get rich. It\u2019s called trickle-up.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, one thing here, folks. You start talking about trickle-up and trickle-down and you can really rub people the wrong way. ‘Cause trickle-down works. Trickle-down is what economic commerce is, and the left has impugned and maligned it. We had this guy call and say, “Rush, Rush, you know, trickle-up, Obama\u2019s always talking about trickle-up. The only place trickle-up works is the Mafia.” It does, but let\u2019s examine why. I was kinda constrained by lack of time. But what is trickle-up in the example he gave with the Mafia? <\/p>\n

Trickle-up is where people kick up to captains, and the captains kick up to the boss, and the boss kicks up to the capo di tutti di frutti, and it finally gets to the head honcho, and the Mafia doesn\u2019t have to split anything. We\u2019re talking illegal businesses here. Great examples are cash businesses. In other words, these businesses that are extorting, which is the trickle-up are not paying — he-he-he — any business taxes, folks. They\u2019re not paying any business taxes, they\u2019re not paying any income taxes \u2019cause their businesses are illegal. And so they got a bigger pot to distribute upwards. Everybody involved is keeping a hundred percent of what they earn until they kick it up. That\u2019s why trickle-up works. <\/line><\/p>\n

Trickle-up doesn\u2019t work in a legal business where you\u2019re already losing half of everything to federal taxes. The government is the Capo di tutti or whatever. No, not to be confused with the consiglieri. That\u2019s just the legal advisor. Don\u2019t get the terms wrong. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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