It won't stop the brainwashed masses from voting O or D across the board. Bereft of critical thinking skills this group has no concept of how free markets work and actually believe government can create prosperity.

The irony is that whenever you try to 'redistribute' wealth, your economy tanks and all that wealth disappears impoverishing everyone except the ultra elite who run things. That's why, for example, whenever they've tried to raise capital gains taxes, tax revenue goes down.

However Obama said it's necessary to do this so that everyone pays their 'fair share'. So he doesn't actually care about the economy and he does this even though our 1 percenters pay a larger precentage of our tax burden than any other industrialized country.