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When it comes to deficit reduction the American people strongly support increasing taxes on the rich, but they don’t support most of the common spending cuts currently being considered in Washington. According to a new Pew Research poll, raising taxes on those making over $250,000 a year is the most popular deficit reduction idea, while cutting eduction spending is the least popular. From Pew:
The only spending cut idea with a slim majority support is reducing Medicare/Social Security benefits for the rich. When people hear questions like this, I assume they are only picturing cuts for the top 1 percent. The problem is this doesn’t really save any money unless it hits people who are basically middle class.
In addition to spending cuts not having public support right now, there is no economic reason to pursue them at this moment. With the economy still weak and government borrowing cost near record lows, it is simply silly to cut spending at this time.
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they are going to cut because they want to cut
That’s nice.
Too bad, though, that the PTB don’t give a crap about what Americans support or don’t support. They do what they want. Period.
Oh, and they selectively
findcreate their own polls, bogus or not, to claim they have a mandate.Americans support tax increases (for somebody else). And they don’t want their goodies cut.
I’m shocked! Who could have predicted this?
Something that Obysmal will ignore with a wink and a smirk, and then render what needs to be rendered to his masters.
Good times.
This is just a shocking result. Someone left the lights on again and boner stuck his finger in the socket while holding his croch, lit up like a christmas tree. How’s that for a war on xmas, eh Bill?
Only 43% of people want to cut defense spending?!
The Saftey Nets should be shored up at this time with so many still struggling. The Wall Street take over of Congress, which began with Don Regan under Reagan, has been more than 30+ years of trying to destroy insurance programs paid for by the US population. Look at any chart, once the GOP took over the House , middle clas have remained stagnant in grow while the very wealthy have grown at an unprecidented rate. Time for fairness and balance for the working and middle class.
Because so many people have defense related jobs. Just like when corporate jets got bashed, the left did not realize they were bashing the only union jobs in the state of kansas and the economy of Wichita, Ks.
Great observation.