re: trickle up, trickle down, just don't get trickled on
If capital was lacking in an economy you could improve things with tax breaks to the wealthy. If wealth is lacking at the bottom (like it is now) you stimulate by spending and tax cuts lower down.
In point of fact, leaving people's money in their own hands at ALL levels of the economy is a good thing.
I think you can see, though, that taxing a corporation a million dollars and giving the money to customers so they can buy stuff from the corporation is not really accomplishing anything.