This is the stupidest argument - in that time period the people with the money were Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Astor and a few others. The rest of America was horrifically poor.
"WE" didn't have more money, the robber barons did.
Reposted from Aaron Rupar
Trump: "In 1913 they traded to the income tax system. We used to be all tariff. And we had no income tax and we had the wealthiest country we ever had proportionately from about 1870 to 1913. We had more money than anybody."

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