Trickle down is not a Republican term. It is a term that the Democrats used to describe Supply-Side Economics and it is wholly inaccurate description for a simple and proven Economic Theory.
Tickle-down, supply-side.....it all got tossed into some blender and tossed back at the normal guy on the street who can’t really define it, but when “his guy” says the magic word....he reacts.
Go into some bar (preferably not some bar in Austin) and ask a hundred guys to explain either phrase. Ten percent might be able to carry on a decent conversation over it. The rest will look fuzzy...hoping to remember what Rush said or what the geeky MSNBC gal said.
We, the naive crowd, just remember the euphemism was ‘bad’ or ‘good’, and that’s about all we tend to remember. I’m not trying to condemn the conservative side but we need to be awful understanding of where people intend to drag us, even with their purely good intentions.