When you either take away individual responsibility for decisions OR punish those who are successful (progressive tax rates), you create huge disincentives to be productive. Welfare policies like 99 weeks of unemployment benefits, food stamps to anyone who will sign up, free healthcare, free cell phones, and more are all huge disincentives to find work. Raising taxes on small business owners make it more expensive to do business and creates huge barriers to entry for new entrepreneurs to start businesses - the source of most new jobs. These are all policies being championed by our current administration and have had the direct effect of stalling and impeding economic growth and production.

"Sometimes I think he is purposely trying to turn out the lights in the US for good."

I think instead that he just wants to go back to the days of the fiefdoms - of royalty and peasantry, slavery and ownership. He likes his toys and his vacations, he just wants everyone else to pay for them.

Not only does it encourage lack of production, it will effectively keep managers from doing their job. There will be pressure on employees to NOT rack up overtime so tasks will be put off that otherwise would have been done. Sometimes I think he is purposely trying to turn out the lights in the US for good.