I really wish the left would just wake up. Making the rich pay more is not a good economic policy. Even that bloated, old, racist, Karl Marx, had to know that. It's not the rich or even people getting rich, that adversely affects the economy. It is ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS when the government tries to fix the economy that they just totally screw it up.
The solution to a bad economy is to chain the government up in shackles and throw them all into the dungeon.
And even worse are those quasi or fully socialist nitwits who think more government equals a better economy. There is tons of examples to look at that show that idea as being just as idiotic as Marxism.