Americans Support Higher Taxes. Really.

[ej510]

Contrary to Republican dogma, polls show that the American people strongly support higher taxes to reduce the deficit and improve income inequality. Following are 18 different polls since the first of the year that say so.

A June 9 Washington Post/ABC News poll found that 61 percent of people believe higher taxes will be necessary to reduce the deficit.

A June 7 Pew poll found strong support for tax increases to reduce the deficit; 67 percent of people favor raising the wage cap for Social Security taxes, 66 percent raising income tax rates on those making more than $250,000, and 62 percent favor limiting tax deductions for large corporations. A plurality of people would also limit the mortgage interest deduction.

A May 26 Lake Research poll of Colorado voters found that they support higher taxes on the rich to shore-up Social Security’s finances by a 44 percent to 25 percent margin.

A May 13 Bloomberg poll found that only one third of people believe it is possible to substantially reduce the budget deficit without higher taxes; two thirds do not.

A May 12 Ipsos/Reuters poll found that three-fifths of people would support higher taxes to reduce the deficit.

More at the link: http://capitalgainsandgames.com/blog/bruce-bartlett/2292/americans-support-higher-taxes-really

[patrice]

1. K&R

[PATRICK]

2. Getting away with the argument

with the kneejerk slogan to nowhere "raising taxes!" must mean hurting all the little people no matter what taxes are referred to. Besides the little picture of majority individuals versus over favored rich and the whole unmentioned scale and loophole thingy it ignores the bigger picture of the Mighty Mississippi money flow in general toward the top 1%. Lowering wages, benefits, social nets, prices, bankster financing. Not to prusue the analogy too far but apparently the people exist to build dams against having the water and in case of unintentional flooding build better dams and bear the costs of damages and return to feeding the lower delta.

The GOP can utter any of these phrases as if there are whole volumes of reason behind the nonsense. "Remember the Main!"
No taxes! We have to make war on ourselves, don't thing it through! We're all in it together(crooks and all)!

And in this system that is the problem- in Big Big lie form.

[ej510]

3. Republicons can get away with anything.