You're looking for the wrong cause and effect. It's not that high taxes cause jobs. Canada, for one, is demonstrating that jobs can be created despite high taxes - that if the situation is right, the higher taxes don't matter as much.

Among the other things they have going in their favor is that they didn't let their banks go so far out of whack that they needed unbelievable bailouts - and the government didn't go nuts on spending with the higher taxes. They raised the taxes first, THEN spent within their means (for the most part)