The "19 polls" summary you cite is from a very left-wing web site, which misrepresents a good number of these polls, many of which do NOT EVEN ASK THE QUESTION about whether the respondent favors taxes. In many cases, the question is: do you believe higher taxes will be necessary? So please, don't just quote Lefties as if they tell the truth. This is spin. This web site even repeats the lie that raising taxes will raise revenue. This statement is counterfactual when made across the board. Anybody who doesn't know that is an economic naif.
As to the Gallup poll, it is generally good news for us, and even better news when you consider the internals: The Gallup poll is a poll of adults, not even registered voters. That will typically skew anywhere from 7 to 15 points left of likely voters depending on your weighing methodology. Also, Gallup acknowledges error margins as high as 7% for some individual questions. The most important finding in the poll is that self-identified independents favor the Republican position by 51% - 30%. Very good numbers.
There have been other polls posted here since the Ryan plan was proposed. If you have one you like you should post a link so we call all see it. .
Last year the poll questions were like :
‘Do you think taxes should be raised in a bad economy’
This year with cut proposals the questions are :
‘Which is better to cut the deficit, raise taxes on the rich, OR CUT MEDICARE???’
Those two results are like day and night. I dont want a bad surprise when this doesnt work out as we would wish.
No tax increase ever raise revenue? I hope you don't buy that. Some do and some don't. Reagan cut some taxes and he raised others. None of those taxes raised that Reagan signed raised revenue? I can prove that wrong, it depends on the tax and the timing. Now those loophole tax increases Obama proposed clearly wont raise much revenue. But they are designed to be politically popular. They were probably poll tested and is a very cynical proposal.