Posted on 09/21/2011 9:24:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Of course americans want the rich taxed more. Our citizens have been told lie after lie that the rich don’t pay ‘their fair share” in taxes. After hearing this lie repeated so often it’s become their reality. If the rich really paid less than the middle class I’d want their taxes raised as well. But the truth is the rich pay WAY more than their fair share.
This isn’t a sampling question or bad poll. Unfortunately, way too many Americans are all for taxing “the rich” to protect their middle class entitlements. It results from the erosion of our national character. We’ve gone from rugged individuals to adult babies who sit on our asses with our hands out looking for someone to feed us and take care of us and give us toys to play with. Not everyone in America is this way but a lot of people are. Its disgusting. And its reflected in this poll. Have the “rich” pay for my kids college, or subsidize my mortgage, or pay for my retirement, or the roads I drive on. Its what we are up against as conservatives.
This is primarily because they don’t know the specifics. They think that the wealthy are paying 10-20% of their income in taxes. Asking the question without providing that information is not really telling us much.
Get to specifics; inform people that many of the wealthy pay more than half their income in combined federal, state and local taxes, and you’ll see a very different reaction.
Almost no one thinks that someone should pay more than half his income to government.
“Well golly gee, then let’s look at the REAL polls: election results....”
We won because Americans don’t trust the Democrats to raise taxes ONLY on the rich. But Americans have no problem raising taxes on the rich as long as it doesn’t affect their tax bracket.
An interesting poll question would be: How much is a fair share?
I suspect the answer would be far less than the wealthy are currently paying.
That’s why the question is never asked. Except by Stuart Varney, who is asking just that question of Democrats, and, unsurprisingly, not getting an answer.
Nearly 50% of American’s are already living off “other people’s money,” by not paying income taxes!
So, Gallop had a 50/50 chance of getting the results they were seeking - right off the top! Look, if they only called the local section 8 list or the projects, then their numbers would have been closer to 100%!!!
I mean, DUH! Socialism/Communism always works in the beginning due to the fact that the LEADERS all blame “other people!” When the first group of “other people” are broke or dead, the next group with the wares become the “other people!” By the time the bourgeois figures all of this out, it is usually too late and many millions will have been exterminated! See Russia, China, Cambodia, etc...
This must have been the poll question:
Don’t you think we oughta tax filthy rich bastards more since they don’t really deserve to have all that money anyway and we need it to fund your free government cheese?
The American People are ignorant and smug. Demagoguery works because people are lazy and jealous.
My bet is that the question was: "Hey, you know that rich bastard Buffett and his billionaire cronies admitted that they pay less taxes than a secretary. You also know they get government bailout money. So do you think they should pay their fair share?"
This is no surprise. Everyone wants someone else to be taxed.
“Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State exists at the expense of everyone.”
-Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)
What’s bad is that people think these tax increases are going to make everything OK. The increases won’t cover 5% of the problem.
BEST answer....LOL
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