does trickle down economics really work 
while economists remain divided into various elements of reaganomics the suggestion that wealth would trickle down has so far remained unrealized on the contrary economic studies have found that tax cuts such as those enacted by reagan tend to increase economic inequality rather than reduce it 7the bottom linereaganomics was regarded as a common sense approach to the perception of stagflation and over regulation that prevailed at the end of the carter presidency by reducing government spending and taxes and making it easier to do business president reagan hoped to incentivize economic activity and reduce dependence on the government these policies garnered reduced inflation lower unemployment and an entrepreneurial revolution that later became synonymous with the 1980s however detractors of reagan s policies claim that federal deficits grew and the increased wealth gap increased the divide between the rich and the poor 