In an interview yesterday, Dear Ruler said that he would be "more than happy to work with the Republicans" to cut our national debt … but that means the Republicans have to drop their opposition to raising taxes on the evil rich.  Oh, so raising taxes on the evil rich is going to help trim our national debt?  There’s only one, minor, teensy-weensy problem with this idea …

According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, the proposed tax increase would raise only $68 billion by shifting the top tax bracket from the Bush era rate of 35 percent up to 39.6 percent (plus a few from the health care law). The government expects to spend $9.9 billion per day, or a projected $3.627 trillion for this year. Based on these numbers, the addition $68 billion from a tax increase would pay for 6.8 days of government operation. Considering the deficit is projected to reach $1.2 trillion (continuing the streak of four straight years of deficits above $1 trillion), those additional 6.8 days would still leave 114.4 days of government unfunded. In fact, even if we taxed everyone who earns over $1 million 100 percent of their income - every single penny - we would still have 49.6 days where Washington has to borrow to cover its spending.

You read that correctly … raising taxes on the evil rich would only raise enough revenue to fund our government for less than one week. 

 Taxes are not the problem here.  The problem is the size and scope of our government.