Should President Obama propose simply treating all income as earned income and taxing it the same way they tax the so-called moochers? Make everyone pay the same taxes on capital gains (payroll taxes including social security) and remove the cap on social security. This would have to raise tens if not hundreds of billions in additional tax revenue and it would be sold as just making it fair.
I think that the average person could really identify with making things fair so that Romney would have to argue that he somehow deserved to be treated better and deserved to pay less as a percentage. This would highlight the disparity between what the 47% really pay as opposed to the myth that they pay "NO" taxes. It would also put new pressure on him to show his actual tax returns. Has anyone figured up what he pays to social security as a percentage of his income as opposed to the common person making below the cap?