Historically speaking, taxing the rich has lead to the most economic growth in the us, and the rich need to make the money back, and there's tax incentives to do so if they bring jobs back into murika, and with more people working, theres more money to be spent which means they can get the money back. It does seem counter intuitive, but it works.
The republicans tried to hide a nonpartison study thing the senate ordered after it came back saying that giving tax cuts to the rich only helped the rich and has little to no economic impact, but the democrats published it anyway because they dgaf.
And if you still think giving tax cuts to the rich works, look at bush, or reagon, or any republican pres really.
Clinton had a surplus from taxing the rich. a 200+billion dollar surplus. :x
I don't disagree with you on bush and Clinton, but I believe we were doing ok when Reagon was in office.