Why are Conservative Candidates, Radio and TV hosts and Journalists so Clueless about the Left's meaning of "Taxing the Rich"

Why are Conservative Candidates, Radio and TV hosts and Journalists so Clueless about the Left's meaning of "Taxing the Rich" and the best and most obvious way to diffuse the Left's use of this expression?

The argument goes:  Leftie says we must increase taxes on the rich to fix the state of the economy.  Conservie says if you raise taxes on the rich it would not produce enough revenue to fix the economy.  But if we lower taxes on all, including the rich, much more revenue would be generated.

There are two things wrong with this type of response by conservatives.  

First, it is difficult for many to understand either side of the argument, so nobody is moved from their original position.

Second, and most important, both sides are using quite different definitions of "the rich".

Early in the 2008 campaign Obama was on TV discussing with journalists and others what everyone thought the income for a rich person should begin with.  He toyed with a number of different figures: $50,000, $100,000, $150,000, $200,000, $250,000,  ....... finally settling on $200,000 for an individual.  What, I believe, happened is that most people didn't take him seriously and just put it out of mind, realizing a rich man must be one certainly exceeding a million dollars in income and probably more.

Well, Obama was more serious than anyone, even today, realizes.  Anyone who has seen the movie 2016 can come away with the realization that Obama hates America as it is because he sees America just as he sees the countries like England who built empires on the colonization and exploitation of poorer countries, and he is determined to transform America from a powerful country into just one of many countries under the United Nations as a supra-government.

America has been known as a rich and powerful country wherein even the poorest citizen is rich compared to a person in a poor country.  It is therefore not a stretch to understand that Obama sees EVERY American as rich.  So, Obama and his Leftist friends see all Americans as rich.  

Therefore when a Leftist says we must raise taxes on the rich, the Leftist is saying every American is assumed rich and must have his/her taxes raised.

So the proper response to a Leftist saying the rich must be taxed is to raise the objection that Obama and the Leftists mean raising taxes on everyone citing Obama himself toying with income figures above $50,000 as meaning a rich person and citing a recent poll by Rasmussen where a majority say an average middle class income is only $50,000.  Above $50,000 means you're rich!