John Kenneth Galbraith Oats Quotations

Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).