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Most Americans say tax rich to balance budget: poll
Reuters ^ | 1/03/11

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.

**SNIP**

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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To: Libloather

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.


21 posted on 01/03/2011 9:40:11 AM PST by noinfringers2
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To: Libloather

“Reuters”

61 percent of Americans are complete idiots with no clue about economics!


22 posted on 01/03/2011 9:40:40 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP ( Give me Liberty, or give me an M-24A2!)
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To: Libloather

raising taxes on ‘the rich’ will not bring nearly enough revenue to do anything.

The government must cut entitlement spending and the rest of the crap they spend money on.


23 posted on 01/03/2011 9:40:53 AM PST by GeronL
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To: OCCASparky

Every election, one side or the other says it, but so far...nothing substantial.

I don’t see how anyone could get elected if they proposed cutting their own spending. They wouldn’t even get to the primaries ‘cause their own party wouldn’t allow it.


24 posted on 01/03/2011 9:42:19 AM PST by stuartcr (When politicians politicize issues, aren't they just doing their job?)
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To: Libloather

YOU CAN NOT BALANCE THE BUDGET BY TAXING THE RICH OR TAXING ABYONE FOR THAT MATTER. GET A CLUE!
You balance a budget by simply not spending more money then you have access too.
No matter how much money the Federal Government EXPECTS to get by any tax rate, they will WITHOUT A DOUBT spend more then they take in. It is the nature of Government to want to grow. It only grows by creating more programs. More programs cost mopre money.
Until the people say NO MORE NEW PROGRAMS NO MORE TAXES NO MORE DEBT RAISING nothing is ever going to change.


25 posted on 01/03/2011 9:43:16 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA
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To: Libloather

“60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll”

Yep, completely unbiased group of participants there....


26 posted on 01/03/2011 9:43:24 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Libloather

That’s why we’ve always opposed Mob Rule. Once they figure out they can vote themselves the keys to the treasury, it’s all over.


27 posted on 01/03/2011 9:45:08 AM PST by MNnice
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To: Optimist; OCCASparky
As Sparky suggests, if you confiscated all the earnings of the top 2% of wage earners, you could run the country for a few days. But... you'd also drive them out of business and out of the country. Maybe it's time for a lesson along those lines. Personally, I'm not in the top 2%, but I realize that their money belongs to them, as do their lives, and I'm sick of seeing them demonized for working harder than others do. Oh, I forgot: to a liberal, it's just "luck". The rich "won life's lottery". It's so... unfair. /s
28 posted on 01/03/2011 9:46:44 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: GeronL

That was a 1915 theme of the bolsheviks. So, they had a revolution , taking the Czars wealth, and everyone stayed poor to this day. Excepting ruling party members of course!!


29 posted on 01/03/2011 9:46:50 AM PST by himno hero
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To: Libloather

There are not enough rich people to balance the budget.

The MSM keeps sucking people into class warfare resentments.

And how are we going to balance the budget without cuts?

This poll is rubbish - the worst of MSM GIGO!


30 posted on 01/03/2011 9:51:46 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Libloather

I’d like to say this is a push poll but there is a lot of truth to it. Way too many American adults have the mentality of teenagers—give me what I want and have Mom & Dad pay for it. Give me government benes and have the “rich” pay for it. Who cares if government workers have premium benefits? “The rich” will pay for them. Gimme gimme gimme and let someone else pay.


31 posted on 01/03/2011 9:54:47 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard
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To: Libloather
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.

Part of this is the media's fault. They could educate people about the reality of the situation; that Social Security and Medicare either must be cut, or the whole system will collapse.

But, it's not really that surprising that the overwhelming majority of poll responders are complete idiots. They are certain that there's just some bucket of money lying around out there, that just hasn't been grabbed yet.

32 posted on 01/03/2011 9:56:13 AM PST by B Knotts (Just another Tenther)
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To: Libloather

How can we know when liberal pollsters lie/skew/manipulate the data to push progressive bs as what Americans want?


33 posted on 01/03/2011 9:56:48 AM PST by Grampa Dave (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS DESTROYING AMERICA-LOOK AT WHAT IT DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE!)
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To: Grampa Dave

One thing they are about to find out is that very soon, they will run out of other people’s money.


34 posted on 01/03/2011 10:00:29 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP ( Give me Liberty, or give me an M-24A2!)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

A Clinton aid once floated the idea that if they took every dollar over $200,000 that a person earned, the government would get $290 Billion in new revenue and even more next year. Another aid responded, “what next year?”


35 posted on 01/03/2011 10:21:31 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Libloather

They must have polled Welfare recipients.


36 posted on 01/03/2011 10:21:31 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Libloather

The only “RICH” Americans who should receive a heavier tax burden are our POLITITANS.


37 posted on 01/03/2011 10:21:40 AM PST by J40000
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To: MNnice
-- That's why we've always opposed Mob Rule. Once they figure out they can vote themselves the keys to the treasury, it's all over. --

Yeah, but call it "democracy" and suddenly the same action becomes legitimate.

38 posted on 01/03/2011 10:22:20 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

I think they need to define “rich”. Rich to me means someone with enormous assets beyond any human requirement. So let’s tax Buffet, Gates, Soros..etc. At least 1% of their net assets every year. Plus..let’s not let them get a tax break for donating billions to trusts they control. Why should they decide what happens to their billions tax free?
I have a feeling that they would stop advocating taxing the “rich” if they were the target.


39 posted on 01/03/2011 10:28:10 AM PST by Oldexpat
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To: Libloather
I think we can safely predict who they actually polled...


40 posted on 01/03/2011 12:13:29 PM PST by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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