I always thought that was somewhat rich considering that taxes are staggeringly low compared to past economic boom times. Reagan's recovery had higher CG and Income taxes by a stretch that would have most of the astroturf tea party types doing exorcist-style head spinning.
Fact is, many racists and idiots dominate the lower ranks of the so-called 'tea' party, and they are taken advantage of by huge fake grassroots organizations headed by types like the Koch bros, to support actions which are bad for basically everyone BUT the richest of the rich.
At the same time, you have similarly idiotic extremists on the far far left who don't seem to understand spending vs. revenue and the risks of running deficits indefinitely. To be sure, that's not only the fault of the left (hello unfunded wars and Medicare drug giveaway by Bush 2), but it's a component.
Real fixes are to raise taxes on the higher incomes (spare me the tiny violin argument that it's punishing success, or that someone won't want to make $500k vs. $200k because he'd have to pay 4% more taxes on the last $300k of that, what a fucking retarded position), and to lower spending. That's gonna mean hacking into military waste while not giving our servicemen and women the shaft, and that's gonna mean means testing on things like Medicare and Social Security. We should also do away with the cap on SS/Medicare taxes entirely. And at the same time place Capital Gains taxes back at the rates of years past. And a lot more to boot. Dropping the failed drug war, letting states have their own programs, and disbanding the DEA would be a step in the right direction. Elimianating the ATF, merging the CIA and DIA, eliminating DHS and giving that to the FBI's jurisdiction while freeing FEMA back up to it's own previous leadership structure, banning industry insiders from working for government oversight agencies specializing in those markets (hello, revolving door of corrupt aholes filling the FDA and so forth), capping government pay to the average income of that state's middle class. Etc. etc.