CBS News Poll: Most Oppose GOP Tax Plan

[Still a Democrat]

Source: CBS News

The poll finds that 53 percent of Americans want the Bush-era tax cuts extended only for households earning less than $250,000 per year. That roughly matches the proposal put forth by the White House, which wants to extend the cuts only for incomes less than $250,000 for families and $200,000 for individuals.

Just 26 percent of Americans say they support extending the cuts for all Americans, even those earning above the $250,000 level, which is the GOP proposal.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20024494-503544.html

[AlbertCat]

1. Most Oppose GOP Tax Plan

And the GOP always does what "the American People" want.











The one's on Wall Street, anyway. How any of those oppose it? That's the only constituency that matters.

[Roy Rolling]

30. Not even Republicans

back the tax cuts for all. Ony 46% of Republicans favor tax cuts for those above $250,000/yr income as evidenced by the CBS News poll.

[droidamus2]

80. The funny thing is

People that make over $250000 still get a tax break but only on their first $250000 of income.

[Thor_MN]

34. Corporate "people" are the only concern of the GOP

Whenever Boner, Chinless Bitch, or any other GOP POS says "People", just replace it with "Corporations" and you will be closer to what they are saying.

[Roy Rolling]

40. good one

As in, "We the corporations, of the United States of America....." Next time I hear some Tea Bankster say "...like the founding fathers did" I'm gonna hand them a chamber pot and tell them to go take a crap in it like the founding fathers did. If they wanna be like the founding fathers, go all the way. :wtf:

[floriduck]

76. Most Oppose GOP Tax Plan

And everyone knows that the election results were a result of Americans not liking the Democrats and the Administration policies. At least that is what every Repug says.

[FreakinDJ]

2. Kickin it Folks

[eringer]

3. OBAMA - JUST SAY NO!

No tax cuts and lets restore the estate tax back to where it should be.

[dmosh42]

32. sorry, another useless parasite! n/t

[NeoConsSuck]

4. What does it matter what America wants?

that has never mattered to the pukes before.

[alp227]

15. If a slim majority of people oppose tax cuts for the rich

why did they vote Republican too? I mean look what happened to the House of Representatives and to a lesser extent the Senate.

[NikRik]

36. no one to blame except guess who ?

The voters ,they elect a Democratic president then tie his hands by electing a bunch of republicians that will block any efforts the Pres tries to put into action to correct all of the corrupt and stupid economic changes bush made to our pristine economy he was handed by President Clinton ! They did it to Clinton also (the voters) however Pres Clinton was brilliant at getting his policies put into action and making the two parties work together to get somthing done. It will be a long time before we see another Clinton type of leader in the White house. The Amrician voter has no one to blame except themselves. We say we do not want grid lock in our goverment then we vote the opposing party into power right after we elect a new Pres with alot of promise. I bet Obama is cursing all of us for throwing a curve ball,right when he wanted to move forward with his agenda to fix the bush economic mess !

[demwing]

39. Poor Obama

can't attach responsibility to the leader of the party, the leader of the country...


that just aint fare :(

[No Elephants]

50. Maybe they thought they had elected classic Democrats, then got disappointed

by DLC, triangulation, New Democrat, etc.

"right when he wanted to move forward with his agenda to fix the bush economic mess !"

Gee, I thought he wanted to move forward on the economy as soon as he got into office, with his dynamite team of Geirhhner, Summers, Bernanke, etc. A real Democratic group, there.

[SammyWinstonJack]

52. He had the House and Congress. His hands were tied then?

:silly:

[Jackpine Radical]

72. His hands were tied by all the Blue Dogs

Rahm worked to elect back in '06, scuttling liberal candidates wherever he found them.

[No Elephants]

51. Did Democrats really elect Republicans, or just stay home? See also Reply 50.

[GOTV]

74. The people polled are not necessarily the people who voted ....

... also much of the population doesn't think too deeply about it. They voted GOP to punish the current party in power for bad economic times. They also are concerned with the deficit and don't want more tax cuts for the rich.

[ProudDad]

17. Nor to most of the Dems apparently... (n/t)

[harun]

26. We sure as hell don't live in a Democracy, where what we want would matter.

[James48]

5. "Chicken Crap".

That what Boehner says about renewing the tax cuts.

I wholeheartedly agree.
"Boehner added that a House vote Thursday to extend the cuts for all but the highest-earning Americans amounted to "chicken crap."

It's chickcrap that we should renew ANY of them. If you are really serious about the deficit, you'd vote NO on any renewal of tax cuts.

Let them simply expire. God help up don't EVEN think about doing the cuts for those over $250K.

That's chicken crap.

[MrModerate]

19. Being "serious about the deficit" in the current economic climate . . .

Is chickencrap.

The deficit doesn't matter compared to the lack of credit and the lack of spending. That's why extension of the cuts for people who would actually spend the money not paid in taxes (as opposed to those who'll send it overseas to buy some distressed assets offshore) is what we need.

The dems plan isn't a feckless caving to deficit hawks, but -- potentially -- simple good policy.

[tomm2thumbs]

6. 26% - that would be the crazies who's calls get through to the GOP right wingnuts

they don't take calls from the rest of America - they only talk to nutjobs & each other (same difference)

[tiris171a]

56. That same % helped Hilter get to power.

The rest of us are more or less Good Germans. Holding on to our false idea that we can make a change.

Simply unable, or unwilling to face up to what really is required to deal with what is happening. But this whole thing will accelerate with the constant flow of money avaialible through Citizens United.

Frankly I wouldnt want to be banned for inciting violence.

Frankly a solution is just to plan of getting to Canada or further. It's all been a chessgame. But They own the board now and changed to rules to suit themelves.

As far as I can see I am one of the "Good Germans" too. I campaigned for Obama and held to the illusion that our votes or actions can make a difference.

The sytem is gamed.

It's like a football game using a High School football team to compete with the Green Bay Packers. They have the game sewn up already. But we are allowed to play.

[givemebackmycountry]

7. CBS is wrong, wrong, wrong!

Don't you understand?
Every time there is a Republican on my tee-vee he or she is saying they are "listening to the American people" and that the last election has showed them "what the American people want and that this is what they voted for".

So surely CBS is talking to a bunch of liberal DFH's and not the "real Americans" that they represent.

Get it?

[Frisbee]

8. Saying it is what the American People want doesn't make it so...

Unless you're a repuke, then it seems to be bought hook, line and sinker.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

35. corporations are people too

Wish they could do time in jail for crimes committed against us peons tho

[wordpix]

9. CBS forgot the subheading: "Lawmakers on the Take Excepted"

[politicalmajority]

10. Mitch McConnell and John Boehner Are Anti-American Enemies

Who put the wealthy people's interest above the country and who are hellbent on destroying this great country.

[Zoeisright]

11. Yeah, well, where the fuck were they on election day?

Or are they too stupid to connect the dots?

[BlueCaliDem]

49. Exactly! Now they b*tch and moan, but this is what they wanted

whether they voted for the RepubliCON Party or didn't vote at all, it comes down to where the hell were they??

[Ishoutandscream2]

12. Librul, gotcha media. You betcha!

[Historic NY]

13. GOP retorts we have a man date.

[Quixote1818]

14. So basically Obama is holding the Ace of Spades and can crush the GOP

if they decide to shut down the Gov. So if Obama caves (which would not surprise me at all) in my book he would go down as the dumbest president EVER!

[crim son]

16. Since when does anybody give a shit what we want? n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

18. "Most Oppose GOP Tax Plan"

which means they will ignore it.

[Kablooie]

20. Tough titties. We are getting the GOP tax plan anyway.

The GOP is the only party in Washington nowadays so better get used to it.

[Hubert Flottz]

21. Republicans could care less about what the people think, want or

need. They have donors to please.

[xchrom]

22. recommend

[Bucky]

23. "Most Oppose GOP Tax Plan," but of course "Most" didn't bother to vote

[theHandpuppet]

25. Bingo! We have a winnah!

Besides, we all know that "belt tightening" and austerity programs are for the poor.

[paparush]

37. Feel that sting? That's the TRUTH f_ckin with ya!

[elocs]

24. A good article with a lot of pertinent info on this subject:

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3251

Extension of High-Income Tax Cuts Would Benefit Few Small Businesses; Jobs Tax Credit Would Be Better

By Chuck Marr and Gillian Brunet

August 3, 2010

Proponents of extending President Bush’s 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for people with incomes over $250,000 argue, in part, that allowing them to expire after 2010 would weaken the economy by hurting small businesses. In reality, however, extending the tax cuts would do little for small business because only the top 3 percent of people with any business income, let alone income from a small business, would benefit. <1> Over the long term, an extension would likely harm the economy — and thus small business — by adding about $1 trillion to deficits and debt over the next decade and even larger amounts in subsequent decades. <2>

Extending the high-income tax cuts for one or two years, as some have proposed, would be highly ill-advised as well. It would make it much more likely that Congress would later act to extend the tax cuts indefinitely, increasing deficits and the debt for as far as the eye can see and thereby adding to the economic risks that already unsustainable long-term deficit and debt levels pose.

While conceding that this would benefit only a tiny share of people with business income, some proponents of extending the high-income tax cuts argue that Congress should extend the tax cuts anyway because this relatively small group of people receives a large proportion of the nation’s business income. While true, this fact reflects the reality that large amounts of “business income” go to concerns like large corporate law practices, accounting firms, and wealthy people who invest in financial and real estate partnerships. These are not what most Americans think of when they hear the term “small business.” It also reflects the reality of income inequality at levels not seen in this country for decades. These are hardly reasons to extend the high-income tax cuts.

Policymakers who are rightly concerned that nearly one in ten Americans cannot find a job should allow the high-income tax cuts to expire on schedule and channel the resulting revenues in the first year to a robust job-creation tax credit. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that a cut in employer payroll taxes for firms that hire more workers would create four to eight times as many jobs per dollar of cost as extending the high-end tax cuts. Moreover, such a tax credit would be strictly temporary and thus would add only negligible amounts to long-term deficits.

The median income of most small businesses is around $250,000 a year and any extra taxes most would pay would not be enough to encourage the hiring of even 1 employee. Besides, everyone would get the tax cut on the first $250,000.

[groundloop]

27. Unfortunately the Senate filibuster rules will work for the will of the minority

There's really little hope of sanity prevailing right now, since by senate rules 42 is greater than 58. We need to hope that the American public realizes and remembers that it's the Party of No that's doing this, though I have little faith in that either.

[tpsbmam]

28. Yeah, well we saw what impact Americans' opinions have when it came to health

care. I'm sure most do think that the Rethugs plan sucks...so far, in most policies Obama & too many of the current Dems have passed, what Americans think matters zero, zilch, not one damn iota.

:grr:

[craigmatic]

29. You couldn't tell by the way the 2 parties are acting.

[City Lights]

31. rethuglicans don't care what the American people want.

I predict they will forge ahead with the plan to obstruct everything until they get what they want.

[33Greeper]

33. Slimy politicians could care less

about the American Middle Class. They grovel at the feet of their corporate masters.

[Deep13]

38. Guess they shouldn't have voted for it. nt

[bread_and_roses]

41. And who should they have voted for? The Ds who sold them out on health care?

A majority wanted at least the public option, too. Where did that get us? Obama sold us out in secret negotiations with the Insurance Vampires. Most of us fortunate enough to even HAVE health insurance are seeing our costs go up. Did the geniuses in DC not think that would impact the elections?

People are also being told the economy is recovering and there is no inflation - all the while their kids are still moving back home because they have no jobs and their costs at the grocery store are still going up - but oh, I forgot - inflation does not include those "volatile" food and energy costs - you know, the ones that actually impact our lives day-to-day?

The Ds are ignoring the reality of peoples' lives out here and expect that the electorate will not take their anger out on them? When they were the majority?

Whatever reality the DC bubble people live in, it's the one where I was knocking doors for one of the real good guys and getting "vote the bums out" in response.

[Deep13]

42. Short answer? Yes. nt

[bread_and_roses]

67. We turned this area from Red to Purple to Blue - on pocketbook issues - now it's R again

Many of us worked for years and years to see finally results in '06 and '08. This area had been Red for - longer than I can remember. A "guns and god" kind of area. We turned the tide on pocketbook issues. And nothing changed. In fact, things got a lot worse! And you think we could sell people that again?

People feel like they've been kicked in the face while they were down. And they feel like the Ds did it. You can argue minutiae all you want to say it ain't so, but the failure is with the Ds for not getting out there with a narrative that made plain who the villains are. They were too damned concerned about their campaign chests to do that.

If the Ds wanted those votes,they should have been out in front for Main St and not for Wall St.
edit for sp

[Deep13]

68. Yup, the Ds blew it.

But I'm still not going to vote for a fascist.

[dotymed]

43. In America

it does not matter what the people want.
44% of our Congress are millionaire$.
We have become Rome.
Unless we can elect (ha) someone who will actually use the "bully pulpit" to inform (since we no longer have a Fairness Doctrine) Americans of the economic truths, we will continue on our present Fascist path.

[onehandle]

44. The 26 percent just put Boehner in charge. They win. nt

[bongbong]

45. The 26%

So 26% want the rich to get richer. Take away the 1% that is truly rich, just looking after their own interests, and you get the magic 25% or 1/4 ("magic" since it is an even fraction)

That 25% of America are the traitors, the religious nuts, the acolytes of Adolf Beck, etc etc etc. They need to be put into a dungeon, which they will like as long as one of their authoritarian leaders tells them it is for their own good.

[Bragi]

46. Don't you wish that would matter to the outcome? /nt

[BadgerKid]

47. Haven't you heard? $250k is too big to fail.

:sarcasm:

[DFW]

48. Subtle difference they are deliberately ignoring

The GOP spends a billion dollars convincing people to vote for them. OK, it worked.

However, as to whether they give a rat's ass about what the majority of the people want or need,
they have NEVER stated that they intend to give that the slightest bit of consideration.

[BigD_95]

53. Yea but Obama will cave to the GOP

instead of fighting for whats right. Most Americans wanted the Public Option and we saw how that went.

[AllyCat]

54. And yet, they will do it anyway and convince the sheeple that they like it

[SoapBox]

55. But the money hungry RushThugs/T.HaterBaggers don't care what the American people want...

they only care about how much money they can line their pockets with.

[LawnLover]

57. Is anyone surprised by this poll? nt

[kestrel91316]

58. Nobody in power gives a rat's ass what the American people want.

[lumberjack_jeff]

59. Less than half of *Republicans* think it's the right thing to do. n/t

[greiner3]

60. Fox must be talking about this poll every chance they get;

Because less than half their demographics wants the tax cut. Way to go Fox!!!!!!!!!!!

[ProSense]

61. Poll: Majority say no tax cut extension for wealthy

Source: CNN

<...>

According to a CBS News survey released Thursday evening, 53 percent of the public says that the cuts should be extended only for families making a combined income of less that $250,000 a year, with 26 percent saying the lower tax rates should be continued for all Americans, and 14 percent saying they should be allowed to expire at the end of the year.

The 26 percent in the CBS News poll who say that the cuts should be extended for all Americans is lower than the figures in other recent surveys.

<...>

An Associated Press-CNBC poll released Tuesday indicates that half of those questioned wanted tax cuts to be extended only for families making under $250,000 a year, with 34 percent saying they should be extended for all Americans, and 14 percent calling for the cuts to sunset for everyone at the end of the year.

Forty-nine percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey conducted in the middle of November said the tax cuts should be extended for families making less than $250,000 a year, with another 15 percent saying the cuts should not be extended for anyone. That left 35 percent who favor an extension of the tax cuts for all Americans regardless of how much money they make.



Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/03/poll-majority-say-no-tax-cut-extension-for-wealthy/

[Lorien]

62. and if the Dems would actually organize and hit the TV circuit with a unified message

they could nail the GOP to the wall with this issue and end the tax cuts for the rich this year. But no; I think we all know what will happen. They'll extend them for "just two more years"-in hopes that the GOP will make them permanent in 2012. :banghead:

[robinlynne]

63. in other words 53+14% or 67% DONT want tax cuts for the rich!

[defendandprotect]

64. Of course ... !!

[happygoluckytoyou]

65. ahhhh LIKE ANYONE CARES WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS.. vote the GOP out AND>.. PLEASE READ THIS--->

if you want to stimulate the fucking economy.... it is not so difficult----->

1) give money to the poor... there is no FASTER way to get the money into circulation than give it to people who will spend it AT ONCE
2) create jobs to rebuild the infrastructure of the country---- we have jobs... we have people... PUT THEM TOGETHER
3) raise taxes on the super-wealthy---> BUFFET gets it... when one player in MONOPOLY has all the money, everyone else just circles the board

[LaPera]

66. Allow the tax cuts for the 2% richest to EXPIRE-(12-31-2010) Obama don't CAVE to republicans again!

Allow the tax cuts for the 2% richest to EXPIRE at the end of the year (midnight 12-31-2010)!

[Enthusiast]

69. We also favored a public option.

That didn't work out so well. I have little hope that there won't be 'compromise'.

[stopbush]

70. Then Americans shouldn't have turned the House over to the robber barons.

Elections have consequences, and no R is going to pay a damn bit of attention to any poll taken post-election.

[valerief]

71. But do most millionaires and billionaires oppose it? They're the only ones who count in this sham of

a country.

[Quantess]

73. Yeah, but the majority don't make the rules

This country is ruled by a minority opinion, in most matters.

[ProudDad]

75. How Much More Public Could Obama's Break With the Left Be?

http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/12/01/how-much-more-public-could-obamas-break-with-the-left-be/

[rocktivity]

77. Candidate for this year's "You Call This NEWS?" award

They haven't worked in ten years. So why keep doing it?

:headbang:
rocktivity

[pam4water]

78. If they report the story for real, and show how the jobless rate goes up when the taxes on the upper

bracket goes lower, the opposition would be more like 90%

[KeyserSoze87]

79. Sadly, the people who are against extending the tax cuts for the rich aren't the ones in charge.

[pam4water]

83. Demarcates no poker face, can't bluff and no guts. :( N/T

[KeyserSoze87]

84. The Democrats need a spine.

[yurbud]

81. nothing will stop Democrats from throwing away a winning hand and folding to the GOP

[goforit]

82. WTF!!!!... Looks like 2010 was another stolen election with these numbers!!!

[markpkessinger]

85. An Open Letter to President Obama re. the Bush Tax Cuts

An Open Letter to President Obama re. the Bush Tax Cuts