obama has mentioned raising capital gains back to clinton era levels in the past but has not aggressively pushed for it--and over the last few months has certainly not seriously mentioned do this--i no tea partiers will predict the end of the world if any tax for anything is raised but clinton raised taxes including capital gains to 28% for a while and then back to 20% if i remember correctly and the economy boomed and i doubt no tea partiers starved during this time