jay-h (5/8/2013)
In an ideal world, profit gets pumped back into the economy. To a reasonable degree this is true. Profits get invested, investment creates jobs. Even when profits go to shareholders, those shareholders normally invest what they get.
Really? How much of Larry Ellison's, Bill Gates's or Tim Cook's income gets re-invested? Trickle-down economics was shown to not work during the time of Reagan. When rich people get more money, they tend not to spend it because there's only so much they can spend. Poor people, on the other hand, tend to spend extra money because they need to.