It is idiocy to take money away from Warren Buffet so that Barak Obama and Steven Chu can invest it in companies like Solyndra. If Solyndra could have been profitable, Buffet would have invested. Berkshire Hathaway just invested $10 Billion in IBM, they have the more than enough to make the investments. Solyndra didn’t have the business, they only had Democrats that needed to be repaid.
If the richest people in the world see nothing wrong with paying more taxes, that’s their decision. For the 60% who pay nothing in taxes, they’d probably welcome it.