> American economy was made great decades ago, when corporate tax rates were like 3x higher, education was free, etc. American economy was made great when Amer

> American economy was made great decades ago, when corporate tax rates were like 3x higher, education was free, etc. American economy was made great when America was practically the only developed country in the world that wasn't devastated (in the literal sense of the word) by the WWII. It was trivially easy to outcompete everyone else and flood the world with US exports, which triggered the US Golden Era, during which uneducated people working jobs that could be learned in half a day could afford to live in detached houses - something to this day completely unheard of in the rest of the world.