True Lies: Maddow Pumps Phony Poll to Push Tax Increase (True Twit, Part 2)

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[Michael van der Galien]

For days, Rachel Maddow (and Ed “Sergeant” Schultz) have been telling us that “a new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll says that 91% of the American people” want to raise taxes on millionaires to reduce the deficit.

Is is true? Sort of. That’s the percentage of people who are okay with it of the people they called, in the context they asked the question. In other words, the poll they cite is the perfect example of how to get the answers the pollsters want.

And it starts with the oldest trick in the book– the polling sample.

When you want a more liberal answer, you ask 1000 “adults.” When you want the relevant answer, you ask “Likely voters.”

The poll cited by The True Twit and her sergeant includes about 20% of respondents who did not even bother to vote in the 2008 Presidential Election — the highest turnout in recent memory.

If you didn’t vote for President in 2008, who cares what your opinion is? Rachel does, because you are most likely to be gullible enough to support her positions and fall for her blather.

However, including such people always bumps the positive rating of anything like favoring taxing the rich to pay down the deficit, or react negatively to the blanket statement of “cutting Social Security” without asking for any more context– and certainly not supplying it themselves.

But the most telling statistic was that only 8% of respondents said they were likely to vote in an upcoming Republican Presidential Primary, while 28% said they would vote in a Democrat Presidential Primary.

That’s not even representative of Massachusetts. Not to mention the fact that all the action in the 2012 Primaries is likely to be on the Republican side– unless Obama really steps in it.

[SECURE AMERICA]

How is raising taxes on “millionaires” going to reduce the deficit?
1. First there are not enough millionaires to accomplish that.
2. If you punish someone for being productive they may simply stop being productive.
3. If they are not productive this would hurt the economy.
4. That would induce the government to spend more those increasing the deficit and the debt.

[Vaduz]

And it starts with the oldest trick in the book– the polling sample.
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[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Polling started out as an honest effort to gather information. Polling then morphed into a political tool used to manipulate public behavior. While polling will continue the results are starting to lose their political impact. To put it another way the pollsters and those that employ them have “killed the goose that laid the golden egg!”

[Cheerio]

How is raising taxes on “millionaires” going to reduce the deficit?

If I were one of those "rich" and I still owned and ran a company, the first thing I would do is to find another country to move it to. If I were rich and had no income and the libtards were able to push through a "wealth tax" I would move out of this commie run country. THE TAKERS ARE BRAYING AT THE GATE.

[Buckeye McFrog]

so you can get 91% to respond they’d rather tax some anonymous person out there than give up their own goodies...what a shock!