Interesting that you should admit allowing the wealthy to keep and use more of their own money provides more jobs. So bring back the loopholes.
Sure, make them pay their fair share, confiscatory rates unless they are doing something productive with that money.
Or we could just take everything they have, and dump them into a mass grave. I'm good with either.
And, because those other countries had their industrial bases destroyed, we had all the work in the world we wanted to do. Everyone needed our output because they didn't have any of their own, but once they rebuilt their bases, they were able to overtake the less nimble, heavily taxed and regulated, union burdened American industrial system.
That argument only works if they were Ayn Randian paradises of Objectivism. They weren't. They had STRONGER unions. German and Japanese unions have a say in who the CEO is. They have stronger regulations.
He has something everyone else needs, CAPITAL. Kind of hard to start and expand those EVUL businesses that employ people without it. Funny that you think someone who contributes is a parasite.
Okay, we take his capital and invest it better. Again, we can do just fine without capitalists.