The theory behind “trickle down” economy is that giving the wealthy and big business tax breaks increases national spending and will cause more people to be hired. The fallacy of this idea is that companies do not hire based on tax breaks or even profits. Just because a company is making more money does not mean it will hire new employees. The reason a company hires is because it needs to make more of their product. Think about that. Unless a company is making and selling enough of its product, it’s not going to hire someone to make even more. How do more people buy your product? Have more money for the people to have to buy it. That’s what Henry Ford did. He increased the salaries of his employees so that they could buy his product…the Model T, and he became the richest man in the world. With Trickle down, he would have received a tax break but spent it for himself.