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66% Say America Is Overtaxed
Rasmussen Reports ^ | April 11, 2010 | Rasmussen

Posted on 04/11/2010 11:35:13 AM PDT by SmartInsight

Sixty-six percent (66%) believe that America is overtaxed. Only 25% disagree.

Lower income voters are more likely than others to believe the nation is overtaxed.

(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; 2010polls; angrymob; bhotaxincrease; elections; enoughalready; obama; overtaxedalready; poll; taxes; teaparty
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The November elections are the best shot for the Republicans in a generation -- as long as they are bold in opposing Obama's government takeover, tax, tax, tax and spend agenda and will remind people that the GOP stands for lower taxes and smaller government, then mean it.

Newt Gingrich made those points in his speech at the SRLC.

1 posted on 04/11/2010 11:35:13 AM PDT by SmartInsight
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To: SmartInsight

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TAXED

ENOUGH

ALREADY


2 posted on 04/11/2010 11:36:46 AM PDT by Touch Not the Cat (Where is the light? Wonder if it's weeping somewhere...)
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To: SmartInsight

Hey, great! Please put me in touch with some of that 25% — I’d like them to pay my taxes. Seriously, if they think we’re under-taxed, they are more than welcome to cover some of the rest of us.


3 posted on 04/11/2010 11:36:46 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (obama out now! I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom - you can keep the change.)
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To: SmartInsight
The November elections are the best shot for the Republicans in a generation

Good for them.

Didn't they reach that point in 2000?

4 posted on 04/11/2010 11:36:58 AM PDT by dragnet2
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To: SmartInsight

47 % of Americans pay no tax. Just a matter of time until it’s 51%, ever voting themselves more benefits (entitlements). Bodes ill for the nation.


5 posted on 04/11/2010 11:37:44 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: SmartInsight

>> Lower income voters are more likely than others to believe the nation is overtaxed.

And that makes perfect sense.


6 posted on 04/11/2010 11:38:30 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: SmartInsight

They have barely begun to tax.


7 posted on 04/11/2010 11:38:35 AM PDT by GeronL (Entitlement Zombies will become real zombies when the money runs out)
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66% Say America Is Overtaxed

So even some of those who live off of government are starting to see the light?

Come on over and join us!

8 posted on 04/11/2010 11:38:50 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: SmartInsight
66% Say America Is Overtaxed

The remainder don't pay taxes.

9 posted on 04/11/2010 11:39:14 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (The 0bama regime represents an "Clear and Present Danger" to the US - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: SmartInsight

What they really mean is that they are overtaxed, and everybody else is undertaxed.

Don’t tax you, don’t tax me, tax that guy behind the tree.


10 posted on 04/11/2010 11:39:23 AM PDT by dfwgator
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"Only 25% disagree"

I'm willing to bet ALL of that 24% is in the group of 47% that pays no Federal Income Tax and in states with no income tax.

11 posted on 04/11/2010 11:39:43 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Socialism is for people who've given up.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Bodes ill for the nation.

Life support then removed...

12 posted on 04/11/2010 11:40:00 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: SmartInsight

We are not over-taxed—we are overspent—and as a consequence, our taxes are too high. Taxes follow spending, but it would be better policy to focus on spending cuts. Tax cuts would follow.


13 posted on 04/11/2010 11:41:50 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SmartInsight

Democrats, tax and spend, tax and spend.


14 posted on 04/11/2010 11:42:07 AM PDT by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Just a matter of time until it’s 51%, ever voting themselves more benefits (entitlements).

The republic will end when people realize they can vote themselves money. -- Ben Franklin

15 posted on 04/11/2010 11:42:45 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: SmartInsight

I would love to know who that 25% is. The one’s that pay nothing perhaps?


16 posted on 04/11/2010 11:43:12 AM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: ThunderSleeps

I was thinking the same thing and am thinking, those are probably the one’s that are paying no federal taxes at all.


17 posted on 04/11/2010 11:44:03 AM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: SmartInsight

In my younger days I didn’t pay too much attention to politics, although my faith and family led me on a generally conservative road.

The thing that woke me up and set me down that road with both hands on the wheel and pedal to the floor was my first year of self-employment. Actually, April of the following year. The 15th to be precise.


18 posted on 04/11/2010 11:44:07 AM PDT by LostInBayport (2010 - The Second American Revolution. The first shot was fired 1/19/2010 -- here in Massachusetts!)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
We couldn't afford to cut taxes for at least a generation,the deficit won't allow it.
19 posted on 04/11/2010 11:45:00 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop thinking about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: The Sons of Liberty; The_Media_never_lie

When they refer to half the people paying no taxes, they are talking about INCOME taxes.

But everyone pays taxes on gasoline, and a lot of hidden taxes — and with Obamacare, people will pay Medicare taxes on investment income and so on, and wait until Obama starts a VAT, so in reality everyone is overtaxed, and more people are starting to realize it.


20 posted on 04/11/2010 11:45:44 AM PDT by SmartInsight (Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~ G. J. Nathan)
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