Posted on 12/11/2012 9:50:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The "compromise" in the fiscal cliff deal from Democrats is supposed to come in the form of spending cuts. But a new Marist-McClatchy poll shows that voters — including Republicans — oppose any and every specific spending cut proposed to them.
It goes hand in hand with the disparity between voters' wish for blanket "spending cuts" and their opposition to any cuts to an entitlement that benefits them. A look at what Republicans oppose:
By 47-37, letting the Obama payroll tax cut expire.
By 68-26, cutting spending for Medicare.
By 61-33, cutting spending for Medicaid.
By 66-28, eliminating the tax deduction for home mortgage interest.
By 72-25, eliminating the charitable tax deduction.
By 56-44, raising the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67.
Republicans don't favor much in any potential deal — they also, of course, are opposed to allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire on any income bracket. Pollster Lee M. Miringoff warns that they might be unhappy with whatever happens.
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Eliminate all entitlement increases since 2009. Eliminate all federal sub-prime mortgage programs(Fannie, FHA. End all gov. workers pensions (except national defense), and offer them a 401k option with 25% matching. That’s 1.5 trillion a year in immediate cuts. That creates a surplus. Done.
Brett is very limited, like the GOP, on the trillion of dollars in options for making cuts. We are not going to cut off the targeted old white people so liberals can transfer the money to free diversity government motor cars and corporatists can shake down the treasury for more money in the name of the latest homeland inSecurity scam. Global warming? Anti-Terrorism drones for every police department?
Why would not Republicans trust the political elite to make “deals” for fiscal conserative change???? Brett is a liberatarian born yesterday, I bet!
"We all do no end of feeling and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. It's name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God."
-- Mark Twain
I need a copy of the federal budget. I’ll bring my own chainsaw and woodchipper.
Yea, and same damn thing with school budgets. First things to go are sports and the buses! It is the same old game over and over.
Time for TWO measures:
(1) Zero-based budgeting. No more “expanding baselines”. If you spend X dollars in one year, anything over “X” in following years is an increase.
(2)Implement the O’Rourke Fiscal Circumcision Principle, across all Federal Departments and Agencies. Simply put: you can cut 10% off the top of ANYTHING without hurting it. . .
I agree with your thoughts here.
If Bush were running these deficits, the media would already have set up a hanging tree.
If the budget calls for a 25% increase and you only increase it by 20%, that is not a spending cut.
Absolutely...
An increase smaller than planned is not a decrease; it is an increase.
That is the other mistake that the socialists in government (d&r).
The States can help by cutting those departments in 1/2 that get most of their funding from the Feds...
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