Posted on 09/22/2010 10:17:09 AM PDT by SmithL
A new poll shows California voters strongly support proposals to allow the Bush tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans to expire -- and overwhelmingly favor policies that allow the middle class to keep more of their earnings instead.
The statewide poll was taken by the Democratic polling firm of Greenberg Quinlan and Rosner for the SEIU. Hardly non-partisan, but Greenberg is well-respected; and the poll has good news for Democratic U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer -- in the middle of a tough re-election battle with Republican Carly Fiorina -- as she backs an end the tax cuts to the rich.
The poll also provides Democrats with a broad blueprint of how to most effectively shape their message heading toward November on the issue. The conclusion from Greenberg, according to a memo obtained by the Chronicle: the party's strongest possible message this fall is that "middle class families and small businesses are the backbone of the economy,'' and the Obama Administration proposal will cut taxes for them and "give them more money to spend" while it "helps the economy, creates jobs, and lowers the deficit."
The poll was conducted Sept. 8-13 among 400 likely voters in California, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
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Yes, tax the wealth creators. Momma Government will provide.
Nothing stopping CA from enacting it’s own replacement tax to keep these folks happy.
I bet if Obama extends them and renames them the Obama cuts, they will love them.
I really suspect the internals here. It simply doesn’t make any sense and contradicts the results from every other poll on the subject.
Then again, if Californians really are this delusional, then I simply add one more reason to the 6,537 I already had for emigrating to a sane(r) location. Just hoping NC doesn’t catch the Californication bug. They really seem to be trolling to get it.
As the song says: God is great, beer is good, people are crazy.
Fortunately, nature is about to teach Californians that, “you can’t fool Mother Nature”. The titty is dry.
Not surprising since some 60% of Californians don’t pay taxes.
I will bet they polled this in lower income households.
The results would be very different if they had polled those making $75k+.
why do you think California is in the financial condition it is?
Another worthless poll from the turds at SEIU...
This idiocy only proves yet again that most Californians are too stupid to be llowed to live
where is theobama guy who believes in selective killing, to rid the population of people too stupid to be productive citizens?
Note, this does NOT allow to all the good Calif freepers. We know you are trying.
Any wonder the Extreme Lib Dinosaurs Brown and Boxer are still in the running? In any other state they’d be toast. This poll probably is an accurate representation of the views of Californians. They live in fantasyland and when the Ponzi scheme runs out of suckers to fleece, they’ll scream like babies for a federal bailout. Saw it off and let it sink.
Most people in California don’t pay any income tax. There are a few thousand Californians who pay most of the California state income tax. If/when a few of them move out of Califonia.......voila....there is a huge budget shortfall in revenues.
For the last 8 or 9 years people have heard the media and the Democrats denounce the Bush “tax cuts for the wealthy” and rarely heard anyone on the other side explain why they might be a good idea...so naturally a large part of the public will think they are a bad idea (especially since they aren’t being directly affected).
Herded Humans will love what they are told to love...’nuff said.
To many of my fellow Californians are fools and buffoons.
Did you have a job then? Do you have one now? How long do you think you´ll keep it if you do?
At least Bush, for all his faults, was not trying to destroy America as this islamist bastard is hell bent on doing.
YEAH, MAN, TAX CUTS ARE BAD!..................
The headline doesn’t match the data. Is the media lying?
CALIFORNIA, LAND OF THE ETERNAL ELOI...............
the californians must not realize that the tax increases will not discriminate by state. Given the insane cost of living in california, most of those californians will enjoy paying their new taxes.
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