You've drunk deeply of the wine of libertarian economic theory, sir.
You believe that taxes are a burden, and that tax cuts provide an immediate boost to the economy. If that is so, then the lower taxes are, the better the economy should perform, right? Right.
But there's a small problem with that rhetoric, for it demands that high-tax nations must fail economically, and that low-tax nations would be more likely to be economically successful.
That's why in my first reply I pointed out the 1W democracies, the ones who happen to be the most successful economies on the planet. If higher taxes do nothing but create more of a burden on the economy, then NONE of the 1W democracies would be 1W nations at all!
That's also why I gave you a real-world example of what happens in a 3W democracy.
You see, the rhetoric you have sounds *really* good in theory...but it doesn't explain the real-world results, the sustained-across-generations economic success of the 1W democracies, every one of which should have failed long ago, according to libertarian economic precepts.
You're right about one thing, that taxes are wealth redistribution. That is true. But you seem to be of the perception that after being collected by those shady IRS men in trench coats, those high taxes go *poof* in the night and disappear down some hole, never to be seen again.
It's actually the opposite, for nearly every dollar of those taxes are pumped back into the economy - not for yachts or overseas mansions or resorts in the Caymans, but to pay contractors to build roads or ships or for better fire and police protection, for everything that contractors and workers at state, local, and federal levels do...and every one of those employed gets paid and use that money in turn, thus supporting the economy. Yeah, it really does work that way...and just to make you feel better, yes, the rich still get richer, too...just like they did when they had top marginal tax rates of 70-90%.
You want to call the rich the "job creators"...but you and I both are forced to subsidize the rich because they are unwilling to pay their workers enough to pay the rent? Thanks to fifty years of union-busting, guess whose employees are most in need of government assistance to make ends meet? Wal-Mart and McDonald's. That's not "job creation" - that's freaking highway robbery...not by the poor, but by the rich!
I suggest you take another look at that wine of libertarian economic rhetoric. It's not wine. It's Kool-Aid.
Lastly, I'll leave you with this:
“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”
This observation was made by the Greek historian and philosopher Plutarch in the 1st century AD. Note that even 2000 years ago, this was known to be a grave issue.
