Most of the electorate polled support tax-cut deal - even when faced with primary objections

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from the Washington Post - Dec. 13, 2010




Washington Post-ABC News poll finds broad bipartisan support for tax package

_____ A slender 11 percent of those polled back all four of the deal's primary tax provisions: an across-the-board extension of Bush-era tax cuts, additional jobless benefits, a payroll tax holiday and a $5 million threshold for inheritance taxes. Just 38 percent support even two of the components.

But put all four items together, and 69 percent of all Americans support the package. Large majorities of Democrats, Republicans and independents alike favor the agreement, which has drawn stiff opposition from some Democrats in the House. In the poll, 69 percent of liberal Democrats support the agreement, which Obama has called a framework for legislation.

Even when primary objections to the pact are mentioned - that it would add about $900 billion to the federal budget deficit and that it extends tax breaks to the wealthy - 62 percent of all those polled support the package.


read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/13/AR2010121302373_pf.html

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1. Americans refuse to make any tough choices

And politicians are more than happy to oblige.

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2. right, so we see stop-gap economic measures at the end of the session

. . . or at debt-limit time. The legislators know the state of accounts, but they know they have to keep their money game going to have any relevance at all. Just borrowing more to maintain all of their priorities and to keep them from having make those 'hard choices'.