Like the economic super genius Obama said, "It's a matter of fairness." when asked that even though raising capital tax rates brings in less overall tax revenue.
For these hard left ideologues the results do not matter as long as they think they are punishing someone, someone rich. At it's heart this is all leftism is, greed and envy.
BTW, did anybody notice that the very first month of the last FY under Obama I was over $120 billion? It's going to be a glorious future comrades, GLORIOUS!!!