Should President Obama extend the Bush tax cuts?

[ZombieHorde]

Poll question: Should President Obama extend the Bush tax cuts?

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. Not only should the Chimp tax "cuts" for the tax dodging rich go immediately

But so should the Reagan tax "cuts" for the tax dodging rich. And eventually the JFK tax cuts as well. Don't want to spring it all on them at once, or you would have all the old billionaires dropping dead this year and getting out of the estate tax. Which by the way should also be fully restored.

[onehandle]

2. Yes, but only for districts who vote Democrat in November. nt

[NoNothing]

3. Yes for the lowest three quintiles

No for tho upper two.

[Oregone]

4. What would a "pragmatic" Jesus do?

Extend those fuckers

[DevonRex]

5. What's with the snarky third option?

[Sebastian Doyle]

8. Ask the two people who voted for it.

:shrug:

[DevonRex]

10. So, why did you vote for it?

[Sebastian Doyle]

11. See the first reply in this thread

I think I made my position on tax "cuts" obvious enough :)

[ZombieHorde]

12. I was going to have the options,

I will oppose whatever President Obama chooses.

and

I will support whatever President Obama chooses.

but I decided to consolidate the two into one neat snarky option to mock the accusations, "you just love/hate whatever Obama does!"

[Ken Burch]

15. It's the default choice of half the posters on this board on ANY given issue.

They'd say it if Obama threatened to Nuke Moscow AND Beijing.

[DevonRex]

18. And there it is.

[juajen]

6. Not "No", but "HELL, NO!"

[dmallind]

7. You missed "some of them but only at the bottom" as an option. NT

[Arkana]

9. Sure--but only for those who make less than 250K a year.

Make more than that? Sorry, you're gonna pay your fair share again.

[KansDem]

13. !!

:rofl:

[guruoo]

14. I thought that this was up to Congress. nt

[bornskeptic]

16. A choice of three terrible options? I pass.

I don't know how anyone who claims to be a progressive can support either
(a) Eliminating the lower income tax cuts
or
(b) Extending the tax cuts for the rich.

I don't see why any progressive would have trouble coming to the right choice, so the third option stinks also.

[napi21]

17. I'm inclined to say let ALL the Bush tax cuts lapse. That means for

the medium income people too! They weren't really that much for us as indiviudals but it would help A LOT in restoring the economy overall.

[DailyGrind51]

19. Hell no!

He will never fund the balance of his agenda or reduce the deficit without the needed revenue! Even Bernanke said we will need to raise taxes.

[okieinpain]

20. yes but he should raise them to 20% then re-enact them. n/t.

[LatteLibertine]

21. No

In addition, do you realize if they shaved >1%< off of Goldman Sachs annual revenue they would have more than enough to make everyone in the United States a millionaire.

[Aramchek]

22. you should have made a "Not for the Rich" option