All you're advocating for are symbolic taxes on poor people. Nothing that is going to address broader problems.
Chaos and pain to teach people a lesson are his calling cards.
But he's not wrong about Medicare, SS, and military spending. No meaningful cuts or reform in sight.
And if we're ever going to address the debt and deficit, more revenue is needed and everyone will need to be taxed at a higher rate.
I don't know if either party will ever do that. The GOP used to be ideologically opposed to tax increases on economic and small government principles (however dubiously adhered to in practice), but now they're much more in "starve the beast" mode, aka "make government fail so we can claim government doesn't work" ... they'd rather see it all burn.
While Democrats would happily tax billionaires, I'm not sure their appetite (or the slim electoral margins that might bring them to power) will tolerate tax increases on the middle and upper working classes, which is where the money is.
No reason to pretend like you're doing different. It's pretty easy to reject your symbolism because it isn't actually solving a problem.
I would actually be ok with your 1-2% tax on those making less than ~$40k, even if it is almost entirely symbolic. If you were advocating for more, I would probably be against it.
As taxes go, a national sales tax / VAT might be a more palatable regressive tax hike for the GOP (if they can EVER again be convinced to raise taxes), and give Democrats cover to pretend it's not a tax on the poor and middle classes.
On a related note, in the end it's just not possible to mesh the left's longer term goal of UBI with any kind of tax-the-poor-a-little-bit-so-they-have-skin-in-the-game reasoning.