We Can't Count On The Rich Enough To REALLY Soak Them

One of the problems with the rich is that their incomes are highly variable.  For instance, in one year, a household might have $5.5M in income--the next, a paltry $1.7M.  Now of course, either year is a pretty good year (for that household)--but if you are trying to plan government expenditures around predictable revenue streams--well, you'll have a rough time with the rich.  Raise their taxes, I say!  Though you won't really know what you're going to get....

Oh- sorry.  I should have said that we were talking about the Obamas.