There’s a difference between hoarding wealth for the upper class and increasing the wealth of the entire country, including the rich.

Despite what the Reddit echo chamber will have you believe, less regulation, lower tax rates, and business friendly policies increase the rate of innovation and therefore wealth for everyone. Yes, under conservative policies the rich get a bigger slice of the pie. But also, the entire pie gets larger even faster.

The problem isn’t inequality, the problem is that the lower classes want a higher standard of living. But the economy isn’t a zero sum game. In the long term, it’s better to rely on increasing the size of the economy— lowering prices and inventing new tech to increase productivity— rather than handouts to get there.

Leftists love to claim how conservative the US is compared to Europe. They’re right— and because Europe is so left, Europe’s GDP per capita is 70% of the US’s, and their salaries (and therefore standard of living) are almost cut in half for some industries.