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Should Taxes Be Raised on the Rich to help the economy? Help Freep this Poll!
Yahoo ^ | 4/11/12 | Howard

Posted on 04/11/2012 9:39:35 AM PDT by Howard Morrison

Should Taxes Be Raised on the Rich to help the economy. Freep this poll (needs it badly). 64% say yes! Middle right of the page.

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


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To: Howard Morrison

want to help the economy? cut taxes

want to help the dollar? cut the debt

how do you cut debt? cut spending BELOW tax revenues

yea.... that’s some real rocket science there


21 posted on 04/11/2012 10:12:50 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Howard Morrison
(no bias here!)

Yes the inequality is an outrage a natural outcome of a free market economy.

"No, raising taxes isn’t the solution" -- CUTTING THE OUTRAGEOUS SPENDING IS THE SOLUTION, YOU YAHOO IDIOTS!

(Had to put "outrage" in its proper place)

22 posted on 04/11/2012 10:15:23 AM PDT by Zman516
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To: Howard Morrison

Should taxes be hiked for the very rich to help the economy?

Yes, the inequality is an outrage.

63%

No, raising taxes isn’t the solution.

37%


23 posted on 04/11/2012 10:15:43 AM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: Hunton Peck

36899 votes


24 posted on 04/11/2012 10:16:27 AM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: Howard Morrison

Taxesould be levied on all wage earners who do not pay their fair share nor shoulder their portion of the burden

If money is so dear then there can be public service in lieu of paying taxes.


25 posted on 04/11/2012 10:19:50 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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To: Howard Morrison
All together now: scrap the current income tax system to get the gov off our backs and out of our pockets (will happen only if a revolution takes place), and install a flat tax or a fair sales tax so EVERYBODY pays something.
26 posted on 04/11/2012 10:20:23 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: Howard Morrison

If all the wealthy people who ever lived in the U.S. paid all their wealth over to the Obama Administration, it would still fall short of the money this bastard has already endebted us to.


27 posted on 04/11/2012 10:23:10 AM PDT by ZULU (LIBERATE HAGIA SOPHIA!!!!!)
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To: drypowder

This needs reminding:
At about the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in the year 1787, Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor at The University of Edinburgh) had this to day about “The Fall of the Athenian Republic some 2000 years prior:

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.”

“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;

From spiritual faith to great courage;

From courage to liberty;

From liberty to abundance;

From abundance to complacency;

From complacency to apathy;

From apathy to dependence;

From dependence back into bondage.”


28 posted on 04/11/2012 10:26:05 AM PDT by Digger (If RINO is your selection then failure is your election)
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To: Howard Morrison

I’m STUNNED that a Yahoo! poll would lean toward the occupiers/communists. STUNNED I tell you. /s


29 posted on 04/11/2012 10:27:42 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (We can't have economic progress...there is a slug somewhere that needs to be saved. MP)
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To: Howard Morrison

Answer: NO. Cut spending and stop giving away money to the undeserving: countries, corporations, or those who think they are entitled.


30 posted on 04/11/2012 10:48:37 AM PDT by Rapscallion
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To: Howard Morrison

Answer: NO. Cut spending and stop giving away money to the undeserving: countries, corporations, or those who think they are entitled.


31 posted on 04/11/2012 10:48:51 AM PDT by Rapscallion
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To: Howard Morrison

32 posted on 04/11/2012 10:59:28 AM PDT by SC DOC
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To: Howard Morrison

NO! We need to take away Hussein’s check writing privileges to our enemies. Add in all his family and friends’ vacations and we’d be in the black again.


33 posted on 04/11/2012 10:59:53 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Stosh
The Yahoo question was clearly constructed to elicit a “Yes” answer.

IMHO there should have been a check question to follow a “Yes” answer - “How many middle class or poor people have offered you a full time job?”

The unwashed and poorly educated masses, actively encouraged by the LMSM have no understanding when it comes to the economy (”Money from Obama’s stash”) much less what it takes to meet a payroll. But then, that is the type of people who will vote liberal-progressive-socialist-dimocrat every time.

34 posted on 04/11/2012 11:55:10 AM PDT by Nip (TANSTAAFL and BOHICA)
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To: Howard Morrison; 2ndDivisionVet; A knight without armor; Alexander Rubin; all the best; ...
Maybe we canmake it closer. Thanks to MtnWmn and GopherBroke for the ping!

FREEP THIS POLL ***PING!*** FRmail me if you want to be added or removed from the Fearless Poll-Freeping Freepers Ping list. And be sure to ping me to any polls that need Freepin', if I miss them. (looks like a medium volume list) (gordongekko909, founder of the pinglist, stays on the list until his ghost signs up for the list)

35 posted on 04/11/2012 2:15:53 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: Stosh
The question I would like to see asked:

If it was known that lowering taxes across the board would bring in more total tax revenue by generating more domestic economic activity but that the wealthy would still benefit from those tax cuts, would you be in favor or opposed?

The libtards and economic ignoramuses (even assuming they understood the question) would still be overwhelmingly opposed.

36 posted on 04/11/2012 2:38:48 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Howard Morrison

I’ve believed for a long time that all income should be taxed equally which in the end would reduce earned income tax rates.

Why are businessmen required to pay 35% on business income while billionaire financiers and hedge fund managers who passively invest pay only 15%? Why are those taking withdrawals from IRA’S paying higher rates than hedge fund managers?

Tax free municipal bond interest should be phased out too as it has become a boondoggle for crooked municipal authorities. Another segment that needs phased out because it is crooked and abused are non-profit tax free businesses.

Remove exceptions and make it all the same and that would reduce the earned income tax rate which in the end is what America should encourage.


37 posted on 04/11/2012 3:15:19 PM PDT by apoliticalone (Honest govt. that operates in the interest of US sovereignty and the people, not global $$$)
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To: Howard Morrison; dynachrome

At ~165,000 total votes, this one isn’t going anywhere. Too bad, but evil wrong headedness has won this one.

Yes, I’m a good little socialist product of the public schools, and everyone knows that the inequality is an outrage.
64%

No, raising taxes has been proven over and over again to decrease revenues to the treasury.
36%

164,874 votes


38 posted on 04/11/2012 3:28:31 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: TheOldLady

Rich = evil (unless you are buffet or soros)


39 posted on 04/11/2012 3:30:44 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: dynachrome
Only brainwashing could make these unfortunates want to destroy the only people who can give them a job so they can support themselves and be free.

Defund the public schools and all public employees' unions.
40 posted on 04/11/2012 3:55:06 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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