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Moore's point was that we don't really need to be broke. The statistic he gave is that the top 400 Americans have more wealth than the bottom 150 MILLION Americans COMBINED. Between 1944 and 1966, we taxed the super-rich at 90%. Today, we do it at 35%. Yes, America is running a deficit, but increasing revenue from the very top income brackets could go a long way towards correcting it (and we could go even further by taxing corporations-- 2/3 of corps don't pay any taxes). Sticking it to the poor- and middle- classes to make up for revenue shortfalls is just inhumane. And no, reducing taxes on the super-rich does not create jobs.See the prwatch article on this here: https://www.prwatch.org/news/2010/12/9828/will-cutting-taxes-rich-really-create-jobs