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Most Americans say tax rich to balance budget: poll
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| 1/03/11
Posted on 01/03/2011 9:23:22 AM PST by Libloather
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Bush-era tax cuts
Aren't they now the Obama-era tax cuts?
To: Libloather
Sixty-one percent of Americans polled would rather see taxes for the wealthy increased as a first step to tackling the deficitHow about ya QUIT SPENDING, hmmm?
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posted on
01/03/2011 9:25:26 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Libloather
“Sixty-one percent of Americans polled would rather see taxes for the wealthy increased as a first step to tackling the deficit, the poll showed.”
ah, it seems Reuters has been polling the 1000 people who still watch PMS NBC and think the rich is the other guys
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posted on
01/03/2011 9:26:08 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
To: Libloather
Funny, I thought the poll in November said that exact opposite. And it is the only poll that matters.
To: Libloather
Now go poll the people who actually pay taxes and see what results you get.
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posted on
01/03/2011 9:28:09 AM PST
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: Libloather
Ferget it—cutting spending is NEVER an option for liberals.
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posted on
01/03/2011 9:29:15 AM PST
by
OCCASparky
(Obama--Playing a West Wing fantasy in a '24' world.)
To: Libloather
Tax the rich and cut defense speninding sounds like they only polled liberals.
I say we strip every penny away from people like George Soros since he feels such a need to interfere.
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posted on
01/03/2011 9:29:34 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: andy58-in-nh
Problem is, andy, is that most of the people who were asked have no idea how much "the rich" actually contribute already, and if everyone making over $200K gave every single dime they made to the government, it still wouldn't come anywhere close to closing the budget gap.
But hey, don't let facts get in the MSM/liberal's way of a good little class warfare rhetoric, right?
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posted on
01/03/2011 9:30:59 AM PST
by
OCCASparky
(Obama--Playing a West Wing fantasy in a '24' world.)
To: andy58-in-nh
There are not enough “rich” taxpayers with enough money to balance the budget....
and if you try to confiscate their profits, their profits will be the first to disappear...followed by them as they move outside the US....
Who IS John Galt?
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posted on
01/03/2011 9:31:51 AM PST
by
Optimist
To: Libloather
Try this poll question:
To cut the deficit reduce welfare, food stamp payments by 50%.
Let’s just start there and force folks back into the workforce and generating payroll taxes.
And I do mean people taking jobs below their “pay grades.” Time to get off your duff and get back to ANY kind of work.
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posted on
01/03/2011 9:32:36 AM PST
by
EBH
( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
To: OCCASparky
Unless it’s republican spending...but of course it’s the other way around when the republicans are in power.
No one is going to cut their own spending...
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posted on
01/03/2011 9:33:16 AM PST
by
stuartcr
(When politicians politicize issues, aren't they just doing their job?)
To: Libloather
according to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll Oh, yeah... there's a poll we can trust.
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posted on
01/03/2011 9:34:45 AM PST
by
grobdriver
(Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Fascism - Nobama - No Way!)
To: Libloather
The budget will never be balanced as long as they can spend what they want and tax what they want.
Washington spends more than it takes in through tax revenues, resulting in a projected budget deficit of almost $1.35 trillion in 2010, or 9 percent of GDP, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Couldn't we get rid of the deficit by raising taxes?
A study we conducted at the Tax Policy Center found that Washington would have to raise taxes by almost 40 percent to reduce -- not eliminate, just reduce -- the deficit to 3 percent of our GDP, the 2015 goal the Obama administration set in its 2011 budget. That tax boost would mean the lowest income tax rate would jump from 10 to nearly 14 percent, and the top rate from 35 to 48 percent.
What if we raised taxes only on families with couples making more than $250,000 a year and on individuals making more than $200,000? The top two income tax rates would have to more than double, with the top rate hitting almost 77 percent, to get the deficit down to 3 percent of GDP. Such dramatic tax increases are politically untenable and still wouldn't come close to eliminating the deficit.
Tax Policy Center
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posted on
01/03/2011 9:35:41 AM PST
by
smokingfrog
(Do all the talking you want, but do what I tell you.)
To: stuartcr
They better find a way, or else a pox on both their houses.
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posted on
01/03/2011 9:36:32 AM PST
by
OCCASparky
(Obama--Playing a West Wing fantasy in a '24' world.)
To: Libloather
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posted on
01/03/2011 9:37:02 AM PST
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Libloather
The mentality is outrageous.
No responsibility for the jerks they elected, but lets just confiscate the wealth of others we don’t know as long as our wallets are not involved.
WW2 produced the GREATEST generation, and now we have the most irresponsible generations.
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posted on
01/03/2011 9:38:17 AM PST
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: Libloather
Four percent would cut the Medicare government health insurance program for the elderly, and 3 percent would cut the Social Security retirement program, the poll showed.who'd they poll,illegals?
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posted on
01/03/2011 9:38:48 AM PST
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: OCCASparky
The mainstream media, along with our schools have done a tremendous job keeping a large portion of the American public utterly ignorant of basic economics - and of demonstrable facts.
A great number of people haven't a clue about the size of the federal budget, or the deficit, or who pays taxes - and who does not. The efficacy of "class warfare" has always depended upon ignorance and our cultural and political institutions are still ladling it out in big, steaming bowls.
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posted on
01/03/2011 9:39:03 AM PST
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: Libloather
Most Americans say tax rich to balance budget
Tax the rich 100% if you want - it still won't balance the budget. Only tax cuts, spending cuts and easing suffocating regulations will do that.
Geez - how stupid can people be anyway?
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posted on
01/03/2011 9:39:48 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Tralala boom-dee-aye!)
To: Libloather
Where did foreign aid of all kinds come in? It is difficult to believe that USA must remain a benfactor for so many foreign projects when the contributing people for such aid are screaming for their own relief.
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