The whole 1% thing has always been a smokescreen anyways...you could tax the 1% at 100% of their incomes and it still wouldn't come close to putting a dent in our growing debt. When a politician points to the 1% and declares their wealth to be "the problem"...they are simply diverting your attention from the real problem...which is that our Government spends WAY too much money!
It's the fact free emotion bubble. They want to believe they can tax the wealthy enough to bring about utopia on earth, so they believe it in the face of all contrary evidence.