[Jim Lehrer]
Mr. President, please respond directly to what the governor just said about trickle-down -- his trickle-down approach, as he said yours is

from President Barack Obama (Ft. Jim Lehrer & Mitt Romney) – First Presidential Debate of 2012 on Rap Genius

Meaning

“Trickle down government” is a term being thrown around by Republicans lately.
It shares familial roots with “trickle-down economics”, which is essentially

“an insistence that tax cuts for high-earners benefit those below.”

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