Before the campaign promises of more jobs and renewed prosperity fade away, elected officials need to understand that those promises must be kept. Our nation needs jobs and new revenue, but the critical question is, "How?" Make no mistake, President Obama and Congress have a daunting task ahead. First, they must understand that our problems won't be solved by just heaping more taxes on families and small businesses making more than $250,000 a year. Families need to be able to save for their retirement or their kids' college tuition; small businesses need money to expand and create jobs. If those heavy taxes kick in, our economic woes will go from bad to worse in a hurry. We heard a lot during the campaign about taxing the rich. But the rich don't have enough money to solve our problems. Even if you taxed all of America's millionaires and billionaires at 100 percent of their income -- something no one has suggested as yet -- you'd only collect enough to run the government for 10 weeks. The key to creating more jobs -- and generating more tax revenue -- is economic growth. The size of America's economy is not finite; it's not an issue of slicing the pie into ever-smaller pieces or taking slices from some to give to others. We need to grow the size of the pie so everyone has more. More private sector business activity will create more jobs and produce more tax revenues for government programs. One of