Posted on 03/31/2009 8:55:17 AM PDT by cc2k
Eighty-one percent (81%) of voters nationwide say it’s important to keep the promised middle-class tax cuts in President Obama's $3.6 trillion budget. That figure includes 55% who say it’s Very Important.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 15% do not see the tax cuts as important.
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By a 51% to 38% margin, voters say the tax cuts are more important than new spending on health care reform. While voters remain divided over the president’s budget, health care reform has emerged as the most significant policy battleground.
By a 50% to 42% margin, voters say tax cuts also are more important than new spending on energy initiatives. It’s a closer call on education, with 48% saying the tax cuts are more important while 45% hold the opposite view.
For all three trade-offs, a majority of Democrats see the new spending initiatives as more important while a majority of Republicans and unaffiliated voters favor the tax cuts
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From Dems Dump Middle-Class Tax Cuts from Budget While Keeping New National Energy Tax That Hits All Americans :
Dems Dump Middle-Class Tax Cuts from Budget While Keeping New National Energy Tax That Hits All Americans
Eighty-One Percent of Americans Believe Middle-Class Tax Relief is “Important” to Keep in Budget, New Survey Shows
Washington, Mar 30 - House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today challenged President Obama’s apparent decision to allow the Democratic-controlled Congress to dump his long-promised middle-class tax cut from the FY 2010 budget, and vowed Republicans will offer a better budget that cuts taxes for middle-class families instead of raising them through a new national energy tax.
“This is an epic bait-and-switch that should infuriate every middle-class family in America,” Boehner said. “The American people overwhelmingly believe middle-class tax relief is essential to getting our economy moving again. But instead of cutting taxes for middle-class families, Washington Democrats are raising their taxes by as much as $3,100 a year in the middle of a deep recession.”
President Obama’s budget director, Peter Orszag, has endorsed both the House and Senate versions of the President’s FY 2010 budget – but according to the New York Times, “neither would extend a middle-class tax cut championed by Mr. Obama beyond 2010 unless a source of revenue to pay for it is identified.” Meanwhile, Boehner noted that a new national energy tax insisted upon by the President will hit virtually every American family and small business and could cost every American household up to $3,100 a year. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) confirmed this in public comments last week in which he indicated Democrats will use revenue from the President’s new national energy tax to pay for an expansion of government-run health care.
According to a Rasmussen survey released today, 81 percent of Americans believe it is important for Congress to pass a budget that includes the middle-class tax relief that was frequently promised but now abandoned by President Obama. Only 15 percent say the promised middle-class tax relief is not important.
“The Democratic budget spends too much, taxes too much, and borrows too much,” Boehner said. “It will hurt middle-class families at a time when they can least afford it.”
“Americans deserve a better budget, and members of all political stripes will have the chance to vote for one when the full text of the GOP alternative being finalized by Rep. Paul Ryan [R-WI] is released this week,” Boehner added. “Instead of raising taxes on middle-class families and all Americans through the President’s national energy tax, Republicans will do what the American people want their government to do: we will curb spending, control the debt, and reduce the tax burden on working families and small businesses to create jobs and ease the strain on family budgets.”
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LOL, are these people for real? There is no cut. Obama has broken promise after promise and the media does not report.
Memories
There are no tax cuts in Obama’s plan. Only some pitiful tax credits for a limited segment of the working class.
When the 2003 tax cuts expire the entire federal income tax rates goes back up to the higher rates of the year 2000. Low income and middle income are gonna get a jelly finger up their collective butts! Dummies!
There are no cuts. Just deferrals. You'll still owe the same amount of tax next April, but your underpayment due to the phantom "cuts" will appear as a lump sum obligation to the IRS when you file next year.
A small business owner called Rush with a concern about the new tax tables. She uses the "weekly" tables for her employees. The prior table didn't start assessing taxes until the employee earned over $160. The new tables tax the very first dollar earned. An immediate tax increase for her weekly employees.
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Make it a postcard so that every handler can read it also.
This is the same 81% of looney tunes that voted this loser into office and they’re shocked at the lies? “We insist you keep your promise”! Yeah. Uh-huh. Will do.
BO has no use for ANYONE now except the guy that writes his teleprompter.
My husband just looked at the tax tables for next year. He says our taxes are going UP, and we’re nowhere near Obama’s magic $250,000 mark...or the $150,000 mark...or $120,000...
“Eighty-one percent (81%) of voters nationwide say it’s important to keep the promised middle-class tax cuts in President Obama’s $3.6 trillion budget. That figure includes 55% who say it’s Very Important.”
Er, good luck with that.
In general, it all depends on whose ox is gored. I suspect that:
100% of those who think of themselves as middle-class feel tax-cuts are important for the middle-class.
100% of those with children in school feel support for school spending is important.
the 19% are the poor who really want to stick it to that greedy middle class.
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