If the Repub leadership keeps giving the impression that they represent millionaires, then they’ll be out of power for a long time (forcing the morality/values issues into the background). People with no work or money don’t vote on values (which is why a conservative Repub should have easily beaten Obama earlier this month, but we never had a chance to try it).
You make a valid point, I think you hit the nail on the head, I agree, that’s true, I just fear tax increases on the rich will be passed onto the middle class and the poor via consumption in a poor economy where things like food sizes have already been reduced due to inflation.