Originally Posted by ppatt

...Republican management of our economy?

Once again that Super-Economist Krugman brings up a pesky fact that cannot be ignored:



This depicts the relationship between income growth by income percentile under Democrat and Republican administrations in a graph conceived by Larry Bartels.

Not only does it show that income growth is higher under Dems overall but the different slopes, one negative and the other positive are remarkable as well... the slope implication being that despite everyone being worse economically under Republicans, it is less worse for those having higher percentile income and less worse for those with incomes in the lower percentiles.

Naturally, this is limited to reality and not to other fictitious economic ideologies often sold on this site.