The Obama Administration Budget Targets the Enemies of the State. 
They are identified by class and income but not by name, however the IRS knows their names, and so does the White House and the Congress. Why can't we have the names. And the crime? They are the 400 wealthiest individual taxpayers in the United States of America, and the crime is that they are getting richer while the rest of us are not rich.
According to the Internal revenue Service, the
Nation's top 400 taxpayers made more than $263
million on average in 2006, but paid income taxes
at the lowest rate in the 15 years in which these
data have been reported. In constant dollars, the
average income of the top 400 taxpayers nearly
quadrupled since 1992.
The Obama administration -- following FDR's genius rhetoric denouncing the "economic royalists," and following many well-known politicians before and since (William Jennings Bryan, Huey Long, Henry Wallace, Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson, Dwight Eisenhower, LBJ, Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale) -- understands implicitly that class warfare works for polls, votes and media. Declaring war on the richest 400 is a guaranteed battle-cry. We are the Persians, and the swollen, ruthless, superhuman ranks of the lazy rich will not stand. The next development is that we want the names. The Forbes list is not exactly the same, though it would be close. We have watched a celebration of the rich since at least 1987 and the stock market crash at the Dow 2000 level. Now the sea change. The rich are to be castigated, pilloried, smeared and exiled. It worked for Huey Long so well that FDR feared the gifted scoundrel right up until the day a crank shot him down at Baton Rouge and ended what would have been a presidential contestant. The Obama team will find energy and applause in the war on the rich, and on wealth, and on plutocrats and top hats and the banking elite, and the White House, suffering the morbid markets, will be mightily tempted to redouble the rhetoric. Go to it, guys. It works. Check 1789 in Paris. Check 1848 in Berlin and Vienna. Check 1905 in Petersburg. Enemies of the State. Wreckers. Gougers. Mob rule. Levellers. Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Engineer's Conspiracy. War on the kulak (right, from 1934 Ukraine, the war already started in the new budget targeting wealthy farms). But most of all, denounce the "economic royalists" and the plutocratic pirates and their predatory dupes.
The poor will always find class warfare attractive not realizing that, if they had their wish, they would never be able to rise above what an (essentially anonymous) State prescribes, limiting both, freedom of expression as well as ownership of the goods they might desire. In addition, they do not understand that under such constraints, as are entirely predictable under Communist rule, the shelves are likely to be empty in any case. They will initially applaud the toppling of the high and mighty - giving way to a baser instinct - even as their own opportunity to similarly blossom is cut off at the root.
The young too, will find the opportunity to upset the applecart forever engaging. Just starting out, they have as of yet no significant stake in the future. Indeed, lacking the concept of time, they view themselves as immortal. Therefore, they see themselves as having little or nothing to lose. Perhaps there could even be a chance to pick up something (for nothing) in the scramble that is bound to follow any upheaval. They seldom recognize that their own impulse to steal stems from the same root that motivates the man who has painstakingly built up his (apple) business over time into an entity that now affords him a legitimate living. Quite dismissive of his sweat and tears, they take his personal effort lightly, equating it glibly with the luck of the draw. What they fail to consider is that the apple seller (short of being shot), will right his cart and continue the business as before; while the apple thief is doomed to continue stealing until someone takes the initiative to break his fingers.
What was the the catch-phrase of the workers in Soviet Russia? ---- "They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work"
Get ready for long lines for everything.
"This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do."
J Kerouac- On the Road
However in this class war, the plutocracy are playing for keeps as each nation is gobbled up by the IMF/World Bank. For example, Iceland, Hungary and Lithunia, and Greece are feeling their wrath. It is like watching a slow motion train wreck while the passengers are screaming at the driver/plutocracy to slow down. Yet the engineers (Congress/President Obama) are throwning more fuel/money into the steam engine driving us over the embankment.