Letter: The crisis puts a nail in the trickle-down coffin

For many years, we have been told that our economic and tax policies must favor large corporations and the rich because they are the job creators and sustain our economy. Our current crisis has exposed this trickle-down theory as the fallacy we always knew it was. Our economy is not a pyramid trying to balance on its point. Rather, its very broad and stable base is ordinary people making their everyday purchases. Just like the food chain, if you wipe out the very small creatures at the bottom, t