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Poll: A majority of Americans support raising the top tax rate to 70 percent
The Hill ^ | 1/15/2019 | Matthew Sheffield

Posted on 01/22/2019 11:09:47 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog

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To: Drew68

Even if the poll is incredibly sloppy and wildly inaccurate, it tells us that at last half the country thinks it’s a good idea.

Based on my anecdotal experience the poll is pretty much on-target.


41 posted on 01/22/2019 11:31:36 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Democrats propose feeding kittens into wood chipper.

According to a Hill/Harris poll 80% support the proposal.

Same ole same ole. Wherever there is a dem proposal or policy, a fake news poll showing the desired results will immediately follow.


42 posted on 01/22/2019 11:32:47 AM PST by FlipWilson
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To: Buckeye McFrog

A majority of Americans would likely support a wealth tax of 70% on billionaires. The billionaires behind this chick should get it good.


43 posted on 01/22/2019 11:34:03 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“I am at the young end of the Baby Boom so I might actually have to live through some of this dystopian nightmare.”

We are similar in age. I know I’ll see some bad things, but I’m hoping that I am gone before they get the nerve to come for me. I can see a time when they’ll want my house because it’s too big for my wife and I. They’ll want my savings because it’s more than a couple needs. Those things WILL happen.


44 posted on 01/22/2019 11:34:10 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I have sat with twenty and thirty plus year-olds with degrees in the financial sector telling me that this is the best idea yet.

they are obedient to their owners, and they have been owned by leftist totalitarians since kindergarten. We have raised an entire generation of leftist fascists.


45 posted on 01/22/2019 11:38:50 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: brownsfan

Yup. Once they pass laws to allow them to take stuff from the Koch Brothers, they can take it from ANY of us.

These dupes don’t seem to realize that.


46 posted on 01/22/2019 11:39:40 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

If the tax is “earmarked” for the Social Security “lockbox”, the fabled one of lore that many Freepers rally to, it will pass with help from this forum.


47 posted on 01/22/2019 11:41:27 AM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: RatRipper

It is very difficult for a Democracy to avoid taking money from the rich. We are heading for a bi-level society in which a tiny percentage owns almost all wealth and income and the huge majority owns about 1-5%.

Two different worlds.


48 posted on 01/22/2019 11:41:33 AM PST by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Poll: A majority of Americans support raising the top tax rate to 70 percent”

Grade “A” BS!


49 posted on 01/22/2019 11:42:15 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Tax rates at 70% and above were in effect until JFK cut them.


50 posted on 01/22/2019 11:43:28 AM PST by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

As far as demographics go, poll seems balanced (whatever that might mean)

65% make less than 100k a year.

37% RAT
32% Repub


51 posted on 01/22/2019 11:43:55 AM PST by stylin19a (2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

From tip stealing to wealth stealing. It’s a logical progression.


52 posted on 01/22/2019 11:44:06 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Fox News: "We distort, you deride")
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To: Buckeye McFrog

What percentage of those polled pay any income taxes at all?


53 posted on 01/22/2019 11:45:29 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: OttawaFreeper

Sure, try 70% tax rate. But close all the loopholes. All of em. Make Hollywood feel the burn. They’ll quietly pull their support after one tax season.


54 posted on 01/22/2019 11:47:25 AM PST by Zeppelin (Keep on FReepin' on...)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“These dupes don’t seem to realize that.”

No it’s worse. They don’t care.


55 posted on 01/22/2019 11:47:43 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog; All

I just polled myself, and I can assure everybody that a majority of Americans do not support raising top tax rate to 70 percent. /sarc


56 posted on 01/22/2019 11:47:56 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: brownsfan

The “history of now” that millennials use ignores any effort that was put into gaining assets like a house or bank account.

You have it, and someone who wandered across the border last week doesn’t, and that’s (in best whiny voice) “not fair.”

My suspicion is they will tax us out of our homes. So the lone woman who lives in her inherited family home with three extra bedrooms will get penalized for each until she can’t afford to stay. The UK had something like this called the “bedroom tax.”


57 posted on 01/22/2019 11:49:22 AM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: woofer2425

Start pointing out what America would be like with a massive drain of capitalists and their money.


58 posted on 01/22/2019 11:49:39 AM PST by Missouri gal
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Points up the need to reconsider the suffrage requirements:

Threat To Liberty

59 posted on 01/22/2019 11:54:58 AM PST by Ohioan
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To: arrogantsob

Doesn’t concern me at all how rich they are. What concerns me is the influence they have over government. THAT is what need fixing in our(not democracy) republic, not the tax rates. They always make a way for themselves to avoid a large portion of their tax burden - if no other way, by moving off shore. When tax rates go sky high, it is ALWAYS the upper middle class that gets pounded.

High government taxation is just another form of slavery. Rich folks still get rich by selling goods and services to the government. How do you think people in Congress get so filthy rich??? The rest of us become their slaves. Not “No”, but “HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”. I have already been slave enough in my lifetime!!!


60 posted on 01/22/2019 11:55:24 AM PST by RatRipper
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