ALSO NOTABLE:
* 39 percent of Republicans support raising taxes on households making more than $250,000.
* Independents favor such a move by 21 percentage points, 59 to 38 percent.
* Only 38 percent buy the GOP argument that raising taxes on households earning over $250,000 per year will have a negative impact on the economy. Fifty-eight percent do not.
In other words, THIS COUNTRY IS NOT CONSERVATIVE BY ANY STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION.
Which leads me to conclude that either the word “conservative” is now misunderstood, or this Gallup Poll taken early this year is out of date:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/152021/conservatives-remain-largest-ideological-group.aspx
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Conservatives Remain the Largest Ideological Group in U.S.
As long as your talking about taxing the other guy in your place why in the world would you expect any different response?
Even I’m in favor of raising taxes on JF’nK, Bronco, Pelosi, etc.
Funny I NEVER see a poll asking...
Should we have a flat tax or national sales tax?
To be “FAIR” of course.
This is just disgusting. I’m ashamed that people are so ignorant.
The broccoli boy has done a good job of stirring up class envy (and dare I say, hatred).
No shocker here. None of these numbnuts understand economics and never will. So many slackers in this country that just want to get by with as little effort as possible.
They are just going to tax them into a lower bracket. Why would they continue to work hard?
The parasites have voted to kill the host.
The parasites have voted to kill the host.
So, those people don’t make over $250K/yr and think higher taxes won’t affect them? Just wait until unending stimulus spending kicks inflation into overdrive. Those idiots will make millions, then billions, then trillions, etc. per year and yet will become destitute.
When the democrats say it enough and the media sells it constantly and the republicans have no idea how to respond, then taxes get raised. Then when unemployment goes up it’ll be repeated over and over again that it’s the republicans’ fault. And truthfully, it will be.
The upside of the poll, of course, is that super-majority backing spending cuts.
From that could be deduced that the GOP should have gone in, very publicly, with wanting $XB cuts, with X% from entitlements, X% from regular discretionary, and X%, yes, from the military.
Further, they should have had their cuts lined out in excruciating specificity, and said they were open to negotiations with Obama and the Dems on the specific cuts within each of those categories.
The hammer should have been that if Obama doesn’t go along, they will only vote for those expenditures that fit within their own specific plan.
And, like the claims (however not followed through on) that immigration could be discussed once the border was secure, they should have made it plain that they would discuss tax cuts once the spending cuts were voted through and signed.
Then they taxed those that chose not to buy health insurance.
and I didn't speak out because I had health insurance.
Then they taxed the wealthy,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't wealthy.
Then they came for my 401K and my mortgage interest deduction,
and there was no one left to speak for me ( probably because they were all too busy working to pay the tax man).
Raising taxes on corporations just results in paying higher prices for goods. The consumer (and these nitwit voters) ultimatly pay the higher tax.
re: “raising taxes on large corporations”
Nothing demonstrates the stupidity of the respondents as much as that result. When that question is posed the ignorant respondents invariably visualize a cartoon with a bunch of old, fat, banker types in black suits sitting around in a club lounge with cocktails and big cigars.
“Yeah! Raise THEIR taxes,” the ignorant chattering class agrees, never understanding that those additional “corporate” taxes would come right out of their own pensions, IRAs, 401ks, and other investments. By favoring higher taxes on those big evil corporations they are actually favoring more taxes on themselves. There’s no cure for that kind of stupid.
The government already sucks too much from the economy and wastes the greatest portion of it.
I oppose any increase in ‘revenue’ to any government entity.
1. abolish the EPA
2. get rid of the FCC, FEC, FDA, HUD, government schools, dept of energy, OFCCP(affirmative action), IRS, etc., medicaid, foodtamps, welfare, government housing(Projects) etc. etc.
Why is that tyrannical, socialist, crap needed ?
The stupid liberal media never mentions my plan:
1. abolish the EPA, Obamacare
2. get rid of the FCC, FEC, FDA, HUD, government schools, dept of energy, OFCCP(affirmative action), IRS, etc., medicaid, foodtamps, welfare, government housing(Projects) etc. etc.
Why is that tyrannical, socialist, crap needed ?