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It restores my faith in people's ability to think logically! And I assume that within that 29% that wants spending cuts alone, 20% can't count and want to "keep the government out of their medicare!"
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Secretary of State
It's pretty overwhelming.
The Question:
Can/Should the Budget Deficit Be Reduced with Spending Cuts Alone or Should There Be Some Increase in Taxes?
The Response:
Average:
Some/All taxes: 66%
Spending cuts alone: 29%
This is an average of 14 different polls by 10 different organizations.
The GOP is out of step with the American people.
Secretary of Defense
It restores my faith in people's ability to think logically! And I assume that within that 29% that wants spending cuts alone, 20% can't count and want to "keep the government out of their medicare!"
Legend of USPO
Of those 14 it appears only one (Gallup) is not in the bag for the dems.
Take a good hard look, it's coming.
Citizen
Are you suggesting that the govt make decisions based on polling?
Legend of USPO
And NYT,Wash Post, CNS, NBC, LA Times polls at that!
2011 USPOL Most Valuable Poster (MVP)
ahoy Jviehe,
thats certainly a fair rebuttal, mate.
just make sure ye make the same comment in this thread;
Two Thirds of Americans support Cut-Cap-& Balance bill
*pinches both of Jviehe's cheeks and winks at him*
- MeadHallPirate
Last edited by MeadHallPirate; 07-24-2011 at 10:53 AM.
Moderator
Funny that this poll didn't make the list:
Most Voters Fear Debt Deal Will Raise Taxes Too Much, Cut Spending Too Little - Rasmussen Reports
Showing yet again how far out of touch the far left is from mainstream voters.The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 62% of Likely U.S. Voters are worried more that Congress and President Obama will raise taxes too much rather than too little in any deal to end the debt ceiling debate. Just 26% fear they’ll raise taxes too little. Twelve percent (12%) aren’t sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Similarly, 56% worry that Congress and the president will cut spending too little in the final debt ceiling deal, while only 25% are concerned that they will cut spending too much. Nineteen percent (19%) are undecided.
There’s a wide difference of opinion, however, between the Political Class and Mainstream voters. Fifty-nine percent (59%) of the Political Class is worried the deal will cut spending too much, while 63% of Mainstream voters fear it won’t cut spending enough. Those in the Mainstream worry more than Political Class voters by a near two-to-one margin – 70% to 37% - that the debt deal also will raise taxes too much.
Whatever spending cuts are in the final deal, 49% of all voters don’t think the government will actually cut the spending agreed upon. Seventy-five percent (75%) believe that even if the deal includes tax cuts only on the wealthy, ultimately taxes will be raised on the middle class, too.
The voters don't want want the crap you and Obama are trying to force on them jpn.
Secretary of Defense
Such bad faith!
But, look at it this way, why do you think 13 out of 14 polls would take the risk of fasifying polls if they didn't believe it was that important?
But obviously, they didn't falsify the polls. . . .if they had shown what YOU wanted them to show. . .you would have had no problem with the results!
Just swallow your bitter pill, and try to understand WHY so many people believe that only a BALANCED approach to reducing the deficit will every work!
Moderator
A wonderful quote to remember for Nov. 2012.
Thank you...
Citizen
Why do I have to post in every thread?
Secretary of Defense
Yeah they polled a bunch of socialist to skew the results in the direction they wanted. Conservative pollsters do the same thing. The only way to get a real honest answer is to poll every person in the country. Polls are useless. I couldn't imagine anyone in their right mind wanting their taxes increased.:rolleyes:
"To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so." John Stossel quoting some guy.
Secretary of Defense
Yeah and they probably polled a bunch of college liberals.And NYT,Wash Post, CNS, NBC, LA Times polls at that!
"To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so." John Stossel quoting some guy.
Secretary of Defense
Well, since only about 2% of the population makes over $250,000 per year, that leaves 98% of the people who should vote FOR increasing taxes on the wealthy! So, you see, your logic is kind of deficient!
Secretary of State
Yes, we should raise taxes on the 47% of people that don't pay any income tax.
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add "within the limits of the law" because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Isaac H Tiffany (1819)
Secretary of Defense
Sure, let's raise taxes on all those elderly people living on social security, and all those disabled people living off SSI or SSDI!
And obviously, let's raise tax on people making minimum wages, and those making under $35,000 a year. . . that should really help the economy. . they just will stop eating. . .and stop driving. . .
You can't get juice out of a dry turnip!
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