Add me same Username <| sep |> Businesses only hire new people when they absolutely must . Demand creates jobs , not rich people . Businesses don ' t invest in new technology , they appropriate technology that ' s developed at the taxpayer ' s expense . Every piece of tech in the iphone was developed by the military , for example . I ' m not concerned about theoretical economic models . I ' m concerned with results . What has low taxation for the rich and the tolerance of offshore tax havens resulted in ? The largest wealth gap in human history . You ' d have to go back to the time of Egyptian pharaohs to find a comparable wealth gap . The richest 4 American families own as much wealth as the bottom 40 %. That is insanity .