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| Topic: Radical Right is Getting Even More Fringy | |
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Edited by
artlo
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Tue 10/11/11 07:18 PM
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Americans in Poll Back Taxing Rich, Maintaining Entitlements
October 11, 2011, 4:22 PM EDT Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- More than half of Republicans say wealthier Americans should pay more in taxes to bring down the federal budget deficit. ////Fifty-three percent of self-identified Republicans back an increase in taxes on households making more than $250,000, a sentiment at odds with the party’s presidential candidates, who will meet tonight in a Bloomberg-Washington Post-sponsored debate focused on economic issues. More than two-thirds of all Americans back higher taxes on the rich and even larger numbers think Medicare and Social Security benefits should be left alone, according to a Bloomberg-Washington Post national poll conducted Oct. 6-9. More than 8 out of 10 Americans say the middle class will have to make financial sacrifices to cut the deficit even as the public strongly opposes higher taxes on middle-income families. “While Americans see sacrifice as inevitable for the middle class, the only sacrifice to win majority support is a tax on those too wealthy to be considered middle-class,” says J. Ann Selzer, president of Des Moines, Iowa-based Selzer & Co., which consults with Bloomberg News on polls. . . . The survey shows how unsettled the public mood is on the economy. More than half of all Americans think another financial crisis is likely within the next couple of years. Much of the nation doubts the winner of the presidential race will affect the economic situation or their personal finances, and those who do are about evenly split over who would do better. . . . More than half of Americans either believe the current economic situation would be the same with a Republican in the White House instead of President Barack Obama or say they don’t know which party would do a better job. The rest are about evenly divided, with 23 percent saying a Republican president would manage the economy better versus 25 percent who say a Republican president would be worse. Among political independents, 55 percent said it makes no difference and 7 percent said they didn’t know the answer. A similar breakdown shows when Americans are asked how the result of the 2012 presidential election will affect their personal financial situation. Forty-nine percent say they don’t know or don’t believe the president will make a difference. Twenty-four percent say Obama’s re-election would be better, and the same portion say the victory of a Republican would do more for their own finances. |
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Edited by
Dragoness
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Tue 10/11/11 07:47 PM
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Well you know the poor slugs believe that bull that "piss down economics" works and the rest think that "right" stands for "morally right" which of course is to their own detriment.
They can's see the forest through the trees. |
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