'Opportunity zones' meant to boost poor communities did little more than give the rich another tax loophole -- proof that trickle-down economics doesn't work

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Through decades of leadership by both political parties, conventional wisdom uncritically accepted the concept that handing money to the wealthiest Americans in the form of tax cuts and deregulation would eventually trickle down to everyone else.

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