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Bush-era tax cuts

Aren't they now the Obama-era tax cuts?

1 posted on 01/03/2011 9:23:27 AM PST by Libloather
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Sixty-one percent of Americans polled would rather see taxes for the wealthy increased as a first step to tackling the deficit

How about ya QUIT SPENDING, hmmm?

2 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)
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“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


3 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)
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To: Libloather

Funny, I thought the poll in November said that exact opposite. And it is the only poll that matters.


4 posted on 01/03/2011 9:27:42 AM PST by CollegeRepublican
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Now go poll the people who actually pay taxes and see what results you get.


5 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.)
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Ferget it—cutting spending is NEVER an option for liberals.


6 posted on 01/03/2011 9:29:15 AM PST by OCCASparky (Obama--Playing a West Wing fantasy in a '24' world.)
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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.


7 posted on 01/03/2011 9:29:34 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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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.


10 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.)
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according to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll

Oh, yeah... there's a poll we can trust.

12 posted on 01/03/2011 9:34:45 AM PST by grobdriver (Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Fascism - Nobama - No Way!)
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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
13 posted on 01/03/2011 9:35:41 AM PST by smokingfrog (Do all the talking you want, but do what I tell you.)
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...another poo poll


15 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))
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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.


16 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.)
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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?

17 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))
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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?


19 posted on 01/03/2011 9:39:48 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Tralala boom-dee-aye!)
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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.


20 posted on 01/03/2011 9:39:52 AM PST by noinfringers2
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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.


21 posted on 01/03/2011 9:40:11 AM PST by noinfringers2
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“Reuters”

61 percent of Americans are complete idiots with no clue about economics!


22 posted on 01/03/2011 9:40:40 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP ( Give me Liberty, or give me an M-24A2!)
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raising taxes on ‘the rich’ will not bring nearly enough revenue to do anything.

The government must cut entitlement spending and the rest of the crap they spend money on.


23 posted on 01/03/2011 9:40:53 AM PST by GeronL
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YOU CAN NOT BALANCE THE BUDGET BY TAXING THE RICH OR TAXING ABYONE FOR THAT MATTER. GET A CLUE!
You balance a budget by simply not spending more money then you have access too.
No matter how much money the Federal Government EXPECTS to get by any tax rate, they will WITHOUT A DOUBT spend more then they take in. It is the nature of Government to want to grow. It only grows by creating more programs. More programs cost mopre money.
Until the people say NO MORE NEW PROGRAMS NO MORE TAXES NO MORE DEBT RAISING nothing is ever going to change.


25 posted on 01/03/2011 9:43:16 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA
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“60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll”

Yep, completely unbiased group of participants there....


26 posted on 01/03/2011 9:43:24 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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That’s why we’ve always opposed Mob Rule. Once they figure out they can vote themselves the keys to the treasury, it’s all over.


27 posted on 01/03/2011 9:45:08 AM PST by MNnice
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