If We Could Solve Our Problems by Soaking the Rich...

In an earlier post I made the argument that Americans in general are completely unrealistic when it comes to balancing what they want from government with what they are willing to pay for. It's not even clear that what they want is a smaller government. As a new Bloomberg poll shows, this attitude stretches across almost all the political spectrum. It's "leave my taxes alone, but make the rich pay more" and "don't touch my entitlements."