QP!
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America built the country into the worlds best by massively investing in the lower and MIddle class in ways that helped them build wealth and taxing the wealthy fairly. And it paid off for everyone.The good part of capitalism is the reward that is gotten for hard work, innovation, talent. The downside is that a certain party thinks that reward shouldn't be taxed or encumbered in any way, leading to accumulation of huge wealth in the hands of a very few. Prosperity is created when wealth is more evenly distributed. Conservatives don't get this.
Now America is shifting the taxation burden onto the MC and below while systematically letting the uber rich pay less or zero. And America is struggling as a result and the uber rich point and say 'brown people are the reason... they are taking your money'.
China is trying to follow a similar path to what made the US great and investing to move mass amounts of people to the MC from poverty and the US is tying to follow the Russia model where top Oligarchs gut everyone else and the country under performs as a result and goes into decline.

