This isn ' t a Obama issue , the article shows this go back to the late 1980 ' s when Reaganomics was first introduced . Reagan cut the income tax of the top earners from the high 80 to 90 % bracket down to 30 to 40 % and through further tax breaks and loopholes those people can even have a low tax rate down between 15 to 25 % these days . Before the tax breaks went into effect it was beneficial for business owners and investors to give more of the profits back to the working class since it would lower their overall tax rate . Now they just keep the money and are slow to pass those profits back into the company and its workers . <| sep |> protoat least you got cool sounding buzzword <| sep |> What are we buying ?