DD:  We've had decades of "trickle down" economics, with tax breaks, subsidies and "bail out" money in the hundreds of billions, provided to the wealthiest American corporations and individuals.  It's worked out very well........for those wealthiest American corporations and individuals.  For the rest of us, especially for the working poor,  not quite so well...it's been a disaster.  By any metric you choose to apply, the "rich have gotten much richer" and the "poor have gotten much poorer."  

Politicians of both major parties have supported economic policies which have destroyed our manufacturing based economy and eviscerated the middle class.  Family wage jobs have been reduced by millions.  Some seem to take out their frustration on those "below them" on the economic ladder.  Hey, those very poor workers didn't wreck the economy.  They're victims too.  I'll happily pay a little extra (and it will be a little) to help improve their lives just a bit.