This is all just fantasy, and there is no reason on earth for ANYONE in the US to pay more taxes, and every reason to pay LESS than than the "Bush" tax cuts permit. Tax rates need to be cut MORE, for good ethical reasons--levels are already confiscatory--and good macroeconomic reasons, which I consider secondary to the ethical reasons.
The feds have borrowed and spent us into this mess. FIRST, yes, the beast, government, DOES need to be starved and if not drowned in the bathtub, at least waterboarded until it cries and goes limp.