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CBS News Poll: Most Oppose GOP Tax Plan (BARF)
CBS News ^
| December 2, 2010
| Brian Montopoli
Posted on 12/05/2010 12:15:33 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
The poll finds that 53 percent of Americans want the Bush-era tax cuts extended only for households earning less than $250,000 per year. That roughly matches the proposal put forth by the White House, which wants to extend the cuts only for incomes less than $250,000 for families and $200,000 for individuals.
The poll finds that 53 percent of Americans want the Bush-era tax cuts extended only for households earning less than $250,000 per year. That roughly matches the proposal put forth by the White House, which wants to extend the cuts only for incomes less than $250,000 for families and $200,000 for individuals.
Just 26 percent of Americans say they support extending the cuts for all Americans, even those earning above the $250,000 level, which is the GOP proposal.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; tax; taxes; taxincrease
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
poll is probably right, even if it is from CBS. 49% pay no taxes anyway, however it goes.
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
"So if such an overwhelming majority of Americans opposes tax cuts for everybody, why do Dems say they will allow the extensions"
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posted on
12/05/2010 12:30:37 PM PST
by
traditional1
("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Here is the thing I don't understand. Since they were enacted almost a decade ago, the Bush era tax cuts have been dubbed by the RATs as "Bush's tax cuts for the rich". If that was the case, why do we hear repeatedly that the "cost" of the tax custs (I don't buy that assumption either) over the next ten years would be $3.7 trillion, of which $.7 trillion is for those earning over $250,000 per year. Since the top 5% of earners pay more taxes than the bottom 95% combined, how could a tax cut that gives 81% of the benefits to those earning under $250,000 be called "Bush's tax cuts for the rich"? And why do I never hear that question being asked?
And if the tax cuts truly were "Bush's tax cuts for the rich" as we have been told over and over again, why would any self-respecting RAT vote for any extension of any kind?
My conclusion: RATs are rats.
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posted on
12/05/2010 12:32:09 PM PST
by
JayNorth
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
lets pass the tax cuts so later everyone can discover what is in the bill
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posted on
12/05/2010 12:35:44 PM PST
by
Raycpa
To: tobyhill
If this polling was so correct then the GOP wouldn't have picked up 60+ seats in the House and 6 in the Senate. The GOP ran on keeping the tax cuts for all even during the campaigns.And Obama wouldn't be caving on his promise to tax the rich, although Dems will probably try to use polls like this in the Horse Trading Phase.
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Don’t be so quick to dismiss this poll. A large segment of the population thinks this way. Gimme, gimme, gimme and let the “rich” pay for it. I have a brother who is one of them. They destroy the wealth producers and then whine about not having a job.
To: Raycpa
lets pass the tax cuts so later everyone can discover what is in the billIndeed! LOL
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
A Fox poll the other day said 61% support continued tax cuts for all.
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posted on
12/05/2010 12:45:03 PM PST
by
drierice
(The 'stimulus' cost more than 6 years of the Iraq war.)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
They ceerainly didn’t ask me. The tax cuts should be made permanent for all income levels. Anyone with any sense should know that the upper level produces jobs and innovation. Satan’s attempt to cause class warfare is apparently working, very sad to say! Pray, people, pray!
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posted on
12/05/2010 12:47:06 PM PST
by
Paperdoll
( On the cutting edge)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
How come CBS hasn’t released a poll on DADT?
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posted on
12/05/2010 12:47:27 PM PST
by
AU72
To: drierice
The only polls that matter are polls of likely voters!
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posted on
12/05/2010 12:50:00 PM PST
by
Bobalu
( "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother." ..Moshe Dayan:)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
I’m sure they skewed the sample and pushpolled with the wording.
For instance, right here: “the Bush-era tax cuts” sounds like some sort of prehistoric age. Back in the long-ago Bush days.
What people may not realize is that we’re talking about the tax rate RIGHT NOW, which will be reported next April. Otherwise, taxes will go up next year and more people will be laid off soon, probably right after the Christmas holidays.
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posted on
12/05/2010 12:50:39 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius.)
To: jospehm20
Flat tax is the way to go. No VAT for damn sure.
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posted on
12/05/2010 12:54:45 PM PST
by
TribalPrincess2U
(demonicRATS= Obama's Mosque, taxes, painful death. Is this what you want?)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
This was already posted earlier this week. It is a junk survey to shape the news and not to report the news. The internals:
This poll was conducted among a random sample of 808 adults nationwide, interviewed by telephone November 29-December 1, 2010. Phone numbers were dialed from RDD samples of both standard land-lines and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus four percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher.
The survey was also conducted during the weekdays and not on the weekend.
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posted on
12/05/2010 12:56:04 PM PST
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the occupation media. There are Wars and Rumors of War.)
To: EGPWS
Polling those “underserved neighborhoods” again
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posted on
12/05/2010 12:56:10 PM PST
by
italianquaker
( teabag the vote!!)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
The poll finds that 53 percent of Americans Socialist freeloaders now living in the United States want the Bush-era tax cuts extended only for households earning less than $250,000 per year. Fixed. The "voters" want a BIG nanny state government but their freeloading asses want somebody else to pay for it. Barry is right, America isn't a Christian country anymore. Socialism is not a Christian thing. Alexis de Tocqueville was right when he said the American experiment would only last until the "voters" figured out that they can use their votes to steal from other people.
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posted on
12/05/2010 12:57:39 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Sittin' in da back of da bus since January 2009.)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
I am guessing the poll is pretty accurate. But if they had looked only at “likely voters,” the results would have been exactly opposite.
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Dont be so quick to dismiss this poll. A large segment of the population thinks this way. Gimme, gimme, gimme and let the rich pay for it. I have a brother who is one of them. They destroy the wealth producers and then whine about not having a job.I'm not convinced. AP polls asked the same question over 4 months. In August 2010, Sept, and October the answers strongly supported extending the Bush rates for everybody. In Oct. 53% favored extending for everybody and 32% said only under 250K. Suddenly in November, only 34% wanted to extend for everybody and 50% said only for under 250K. Either AP and CBS have detected a sudden gigantic shift in public opinion, or something smells.
To: Brilliant
We have elections for a reason. Are polls really that important?
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Tax breaks for eveyone who pays taxes. Period. It’s good for all of us. Hammer the Dems.
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posted on
12/05/2010 1:07:31 PM PST
by
brushcop
(CW4 Matthew Lourey CW2 Joshua Scott/ Kiowa pilots KIA Iraq '05. Thank you for our son's life.)
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