Posted on 01/03/2011 9:23:22 AM PST by Libloather
Most Americans say tax rich to balance budget: poll
NEW YORK | Mon Jan 3, 2011 11:15am EST
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Most Americans think the United States should raise taxes for the rich to balance the budget, according to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll released on Monday.
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Sixty-one percent of Americans polled would rather see taxes for the wealthy increased as a first step to tackling the deficit, the poll showed.
The next most popular way -- chosen by 20 percent -- was to cut defense spending.
Four percent would cut the Medicare government health insurance program for the elderly, and 3 percent would cut the Social Security retirement program, the poll showed.
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Aren't they now the Obama-era tax cuts?
How about ya QUIT SPENDING, hmmm?
“Sixty-one percent of Americans polled would rather see taxes for the wealthy increased as a first step to tackling the deficit, the poll showed.”
ah, it seems Reuters has been polling the 1000 people who still watch PMS NBC and think the rich is the other guys
Funny, I thought the poll in November said that exact opposite. And it is the only poll that matters.
Now go poll the people who actually pay taxes and see what results you get.
Ferget it—cutting spending is NEVER an option for liberals.
Tax the rich and cut defense speninding sounds like they only polled liberals.
I say we strip every penny away from people like George Soros since he feels such a need to interfere.
There are not enough “rich” taxpayers with enough money to balance the budget....
and if you try to confiscate their profits, their profits will be the first to disappear...followed by them as they move outside the US....
Who IS John Galt?
Try this poll question:
To cut the deficit reduce welfare, food stamp payments by 50%.
Let’s just start there and force folks back into the workforce and generating payroll taxes.
And I do mean people taking jobs below their “pay grades.” Time to get off your duff and get back to ANY kind of work.
Unless it’s republican spending...but of course it’s the other way around when the republicans are in power.
No one is going to cut their own spending...
Oh, yeah... there's a poll we can trust.
A study we conducted at the Tax Policy Center found that Washington would have to raise taxes by almost 40 percent to reduce -- not eliminate, just reduce -- the deficit to 3 percent of our GDP, the 2015 goal the Obama administration set in its 2011 budget. That tax boost would mean the lowest income tax rate would jump from 10 to nearly 14 percent, and the top rate from 35 to 48 percent.
What if we raised taxes only on families with couples making more than $250,000 a year and on individuals making more than $200,000? The top two income tax rates would have to more than double, with the top rate hitting almost 77 percent, to get the deficit down to 3 percent of GDP. Such dramatic tax increases are politically untenable and still wouldn't come close to eliminating the deficit.
They better find a way, or else a pox on both their houses.
...another poo poll
The mentality is outrageous.
No responsibility for the jerks they elected, but lets just confiscate the wealth of others we don’t know as long as our wallets are not involved.
WW2 produced the GREATEST generation, and now we have the most irresponsible generations.
who'd they poll,illegals?
A great number of people haven't a clue about the size of the federal budget, or the deficit, or who pays taxes - and who does not. The efficacy of "class warfare" has always depended upon ignorance and our cultural and political institutions are still ladling it out in big, steaming bowls.
Where did foreign aid of all kinds come in? It is difficult to believe that USA must remain a benfactor for so many foreign projects when the contributing people for such aid are screaming for their own relief.
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