Baraka_Guru

This isn't true. You're simply missing my point. I understand the difference you're making, but I don't agree with it.

This isn't true. Any one of these people can get rich without a good or thriving economy.

You're applying a metaphysical/mythical status to people who are doing little more than making a plan, using capital, and taking a risk. They don't pull wealth out of their asses, nor do they pull it out of the ether. Wealth isn't created in a vacuum. Entrepreneurs don't create wealth on their own. They may be enablers of the apparatuses that create wealth, but they aren't money trees; they aren't the apparatuses themselves.

If you penalize anyone through excessive taxation, you do harm, not good.

You want a thriving economy? Build and maintain strong education systems. Build and maintain strong health care systems. Next, make them accessible to virtually everyone. Cutting taxes as a be-all and end-all is myopic. A healthy economy is based on a number of factors, and the education and health care aspects are just two parts of those. Cutting taxes are a factor, yes, but you seem to place too much value in that.

There is a problem with talking about "creators of wealth" in the context you wish to use, because anyone who works is a creator of wealth.

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