It is interesting to note how historically, having a high top marginal tax rate, corresponds with steady growth and a strong middle class... When that top marginal tax rate gets cut too low (as we saw beginning with Reagan), we see bubbles and busts, the middle class erodes, and the extremely wealthy get even wealthier. We have see jobs created in China, due to free trade policy's... But tax cuts on the wealthy, never have, and never will, be what creates jobs. What creates jobs, is "demand," for a good or service... which quite simply means a person wanting a good or service and having money in his pocket.
You can shovel as much money as you want to a few rich people, and it won't create any jobs. On the otherhand, if there is demand for a good or service, people will find away to provide it and to make a profit by doing so (which, quite frankly, is how real world business works... not looking to get out of paying for ones fair share of their use of our commons, and looking to the government for hand-outs in the form of tax cuts). The "First Great Republican Depression" of the 30's ( which was preceeded by the roaring 20's, where we saw tremendous wealth emerge ) and the present day Recession/Depression which was also preceeded by a tremendous transfer of wealth from the middle class to the already wealthy (keep in mind, that the top 400 wealthiest people in this country increased their personal wealth collectively, by over 600 billion dollars under GW Bush... at a time when most people's retirement savings were vanishing, and the middle class was getting hammered).
High top marginal tax rates on the wealthy (income over 2-3 million) are needed to prevent excessive greed, and encourage re-investment into business and into the people actually doing the work (in the form of better benefits, wages, etc... all of which put money in average peoples pockets, create security, and therefore stimulate "demand").
I took a 3 day seminar at Princeton once.. where Einstein worked for decades. I guess that makes me an expert on unified field theory.. We are actually taxed mre now than we've ever been. It's just not all through federal income tax.
We have higher state and local taxes combined with the indirect taxation from higher corporate rates ( both state and federal ).
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