whale dynamite

Trying something which has failed spectacularly in the past, the way that Oregon authorities tried to remove a rotting whale carcass from a beach with dynamite, apparently thinking it would vanish in a fireball rather than being spread over a wide area in the form of chunks of rancid whale blubber -- and then thirty years later tried to do the same thing.

Cutting rich people's taxes in order to stimulate the economy is nothing but whale dynamite.