You do realize that there are not that many rich. What needs to be done is to protect the rich, give a break to the middle class and have the poor pay for the costs of maintaining government services for the poor. That is conserving is it not?Yeah, I think that is how it is suppose to go, right? 
Too bad the new economy has made so many people excess to the needs of our new wealth drivers. The good credit to borrow money cheap and buy appreciating assets with no credit for the poor and small.