[thewix]

Got anything to back that up? Businesses managed to thrive before when taxes were considerably higher. How do you account for the Gilded Age? How were those monopolies different than today and how did taxes and bureaucracy exacerbate issues then? Because there are many parallels between them and now.

[personomas]

See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37725434

You have a complete misunderstanding of "thriving". Thriving is Google/Amazon in the past 20 years. IDK what thriving businesses you're talking about.

You can't go back to the Gilded Age, dude, that's crazy. We have to keep things relevant.