"He writes about government spending and the unconscionable growth of the federal debt. He writes of the contempt that the ruling class — mostly liberal, in his view — has for average working people, and how much time and money is wasted getting the government out of the way of people who are trying to accomplish things.
There is truth in what he says, but ignoring 10 years of war and the money that has been wasted on it, ignoring the constant pressure to keep lowering the taxes that the wealthiest Americans pay, ignoring those factors and the effect they have on average people is missing a big part of the point."

To ignore what you say in the first paragraph by calling for higher taxes is to miss an even bigger part of the point.

"I think the first step needs to be deciding that our government could be doing a lot less than it does to make the rich even richer."

I think you'd also find that Mark Steyn agrees with you.

For a start, you might think carefully about the amount of Wall Street money in general, and Goldman-Sachs money in particular, is behind the current president --- a man who is going to make the problems expressed in the first paragraph here worse instead of better.