Its funny that Americans have seemed to forget that during that time that many of them remember as being one when America truly was great, that is, the 1950s and 60s; the marginal US tax rate was 90% dropping to 50% by 1982. It was during this period of time that the US, for better or worse, was able to finance their part of the Cold War (for example, developing and producing new fighter aircraft on a nearly yearly basis).  Programs that actually benefited their population, such as expanded Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, were created and funded.  They even managed to build a national highway system (total cost around $500B). 

So how does Trump, or any of the other national politicians, think that they can come anywhere close to making "America Great Again", when they have already reduced taxes to the point that they can't adequately fund their global conquest efforts let alone actually repair a bridge somewhere in the actual US or fund "Meals on Wheels"?