Is the American economy suffering because of corporate tax rates and high taxes on the higher income earners or is the...

Is the American economy suffering because of corporate tax rates and high taxes on the higher income earners or is the American economy suffering because it doesn't produce anything besides shitty iPhone apps and shifts financial instruments and insurance policies around?

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It's because you need a healthy labor force to have a healthy economy, and the US has created a labor force that is anything but healthy.

Are you trying to say most American are out of work or that most Americans are fat?

Whats the economic system that believes in regulated markets and thats profits are good and all, but ultimately, the plebs need some sugar or else there will be problems and that's more important than the freedom to become a multi-billionaire.

Mostly that they have shit education and they don't care enough to get good at their wageslave jobs.

Also, that they aren't getting paid enough to stimulate demand.

>high taxes on the higher income earners

They're the lowest they've ever been, did you forget about the Bush tax cuts? And now Trump will try to lower them even further.

This trickle-down meme needs to die, it clearly doesn't work. America has been tremendously successful even when the upper bracket tax rates were very high.

Tax cuts are just crowd-pleasers for lazy politicians who don't want to figure out what the real problems are.

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Whilst taxes gave decreased other things that strangulate the free market such as regulations have only skyrocketed since bush started

Name one.

Because Carter, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush all made deregulation a key part of their economic platforms.