Wealthy Democrats love to wax poetic on the virtue of high taxes. “The headline is here: I should be paying more taxes, and people who make this kind of revenue and are of means should pay more taxes,” said Howard Schultz, former Starbucks CEO and possible 2020 presidential candidate.
America is not even two years removed from the passage of one of the biggest tax reform measures in decades. Yet, we have already seen job creation, economic growth, and heard hundreds (if not thousands) of stories about businesses being able to afford to pay their workers more because of these tax cuts. Money is, in fact, better left in the hands of the American people than the American government.