No whats really poisoning the political dialogue is your broken record bullshit about "evil big business and evil CEOs trying to line their pockets." I love hearing mainstream media repeated back to me.
What you fail to understand every single time is that no matter what happens, these "evil" CEOs will always be doing just fine. They aren't really affected by these taxes, they'll just pass them down to you. What will happen is they will take a small hit in their pay, while getting rid of all jobs that are expendable and getting rid of pension plans that are no longer practical to maintain.
Prosperous people are not stupid, you fuck them over enough and they will leave. In this age of globalization there are going to be more attractive places to do business throughout the world. With all this exodus of money, where exactly is the money for your lovely "fairness" programs?
And you're comparing conservatives to people on welfare? Lets get one thing straight, finally. I could not care less about the ideals of conservatives in the context that you mean it. I believe in being fiscally conservative, downsizing government and cutting taxes while maintaining strong national defense with border security. Every other part of being conservative as you mean it, I don't care about.
 Explain to me how its fair that a welfare recipient should live in the same neighborhood as individuals who pay millions of dollars into the tax system? What is fair about having my car broken into in broad daylight by the people living in these apartments? Not only do we fucking support them, but they have the nerve to steal from us? I've seen these people, little wonder why they're all overweight, and they all seem to have a nice Dish Network satellite receiver... For doing absolutely no work, I'd certainly they that they're "living it up"