Tax the rich? Eat the rich?

The cure to all of the US's fiscal ills according to the left is to "tax the rich". I agree that many of the rich could certainly afford to pay more in taxes but the cure according to fish is a flat tax so that the loopholes, which mostly only work for the rich, are gone.

Lately that idiot Michael Moore has been telling the US that there's plenty of money. I found this article quite interesting:

The United States of America has about 400 billionaires. Moore calls them “400 little Mubaraks.” About half of those have less than $2 billion each, and those with a net worth in the double-digit billions is an exclusive club of about 30.

The grand total of the combined net worth of every single one of America’s billionaires is roughly $1.3 trillion. It does indeed sound like a “ton of cash” until one considers that the 2011 deficit alone is $1.6 trillion. So, if the government were to simply confiscate the entire net worth of all of America’s billionaires, we’d still be $300 billion short of making up this year’s deficit.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/11/hammertime-moores-national-resources/