A lot of wealthy people sit on the sidelines rather than risk their wealth in a high tax environment. Why put your money on the line investing in new companies when the government is going to take a much higher percentage of your profits? Cutting taxes and giving tax breaks leads to job creation that benefits the rest of us. If a rich guy pays little in taxes but creates 10,000 new jobs then he deserves the breaks. Of course we could just take everybody's money and redistribute it and that would certainly lead to prosperity as it has everywhere it's been tried.