It's odd that this is the conversation when there was an extremely high top end tax and the government was taking that money and turning it into infrastructure

It's odd that this is the conversation when there was an extremely high top end tax and the government was taking that money and turning it into infrastructure and jobs. We saw this dream start to disappear as we un did those things in the name of freedom. Now, we produce more per capita than we ever did before and we get less of that pie as wages have stagnated and taxes go to corporate hand outs and entitlements (healthcare and social security), which are more or less a corporate hand out since they no longer provide pensions for people that work a life time for them. It's unclear to me why the conversation is centering better standards of living elsewhere as if we haven't added a couple billion people/consumers to the world in that time.