| Abstrakt: |
On December 2, 2017, President Donald Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which delivered $1.5 trillion in tax breaks to individuals and companies. While the law was noteworthy for the scale of its payouts to the wealthiest Americans and business interests, the rhetoric surrounding the bill was consistent with a durable discourse typically known as supply-side or "trickle down" economics. I argue that, despite their frequent failure in the real world, policy solutions based on the discourse of supply-side economics consistently earn public approval because they appeal to a complex of hegemonic ideological metaphors, which converge to help make a self-defeating choice seem the right one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
