Poll Reveals Most Americans Don't Know They Got a Tax Cut

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I posted that 95% of American received a tax cut and provided a link on the comments section of my local right wing rag online newspaper and the bastards there deleted it.

They can't stand the truth.

Don


http://mediamatters.org/research/201004160007

Fox News' Borelli: Obama "has not cut taxes"

From the April 16 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

BRIAN KILMEADE (co-host): Essentially, the president of the United States, without a smile on his face, said you think I would be thanked, why would these tea party protesters -- I've cut taxes. You say he has not cut taxes. What's the truth?

BORELLI: Well, the truth is you wouldn't have all these people in the streets across the country, you know, criticizing President Obama because he cut taxes. He indeed has not cut taxes. We had a health care bill that was rammed through through backdoor deals. I met a doctor yesterday from Tennessee -- him and his entire family. He and his friends -- they're all very upset and concerned and worried. Some of them are actually going to drop out of the profession.

So, clearly, they are -- President Obama and the administration is not intuned with the concerns that the American people are about. I think they need to attend a tea party rally and really hear what's going on, because they are above and above -- above and beyond what reality is right now.

FACT: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act included $288 billion in tax relief

Recovery act included significant tax relief for individuals, families, and businesses. As Media Matters for America has noted, the recovery act contained $288 billion in tax relief, including the Making Work Pay tax credit, a two-year annual credit of $400 per individual or $800 for families. In addition, the recovery act included a temporary increase in the earned income tax credit, a temporary increase in the refundable portion of the child tax credit, an increase in the first-time homebuyer tax credit, and tax incentives for businesses, among others.

CBS: "Poll Reveals Most Americans Don't Know They Got a Tax Cut." A February 5-10 New York Times/CBS News poll found that only 12 percent of respondents "think the Obama Administration has ... decreased taxes for most Americans." CBS News wrote that "f people who support the grassroots, 'Tea Party' movement, only 2 percent think taxes have been decreased, 46 percent say taxes are the same, and a whopping 44 percent say they believe taxes have gone up." Media Matters has noted that conservative media figures including Steve Moore of The Wall Street Journal, Fox News contributor S.E. Cupp, and Fox Forum columnist Peter Roff have denied that Obama cut taxes.

[ananda]

1. I do.

And very happy about it too.

[Warpy]

2. that's because they're too bone lazy to do their own taxes

and shuffle everything off to H&R Block, where the increase in fees have probably eaten up anything they would have gotten.

[msongs]

3. dems know nothing about PR for the most part nt

[Thothmes]

4. I didnt get a tax cut.

because the goverment fiddled with my withholdings, I wound up owning them a couple of c notes worth of taxes that I had not planned to pay.

[havocmom]

5. Seems unlikely the GOVERNMENT fiddled with your withholdings

Um, somebody is PAYROLL usually does that. Sometimes they have or use the wrong chart, or are just not well versed in the job. Sometimes WE have not done real well making selections for our own W-4 which is the basis for what gets withheld. Our Uncle Sam is not the one who computes and takes out the withholdings.

Edited to add: Sometimes the employer will deliberately do low withholdings, because they have obligations to pay into Social Security based on your wages/withholdings for that little line item.

[Bill McBlueState]

6. did you take the Making Work Pay credit?

That was designed to solve a problem similar to what you describe.