... on the super-rich ... the government would just piss away even more money, run the debt up even higher, and leave us in even worse shape than we are now in.

The super rich are not the problem ... Warren Buffet does not tax me and waste my money ... the government does. Ray Kroc was busy serving hamburgers ... not pissing away your money.

The real key is to slash government spending. No more $200 million a day Obama trips to India and Indonesia. No more military planes to transport the Speaker of the House ... coach travel for all gov't officials except President. There are thousands of ways to cut costs at all levels of government ... each slash has a synergistic effect on making the next slash.