Cut Medicare/Medicaid/SS, that's what Americans want? HELL NO!

[tpsbmam]

THIS is what Americans want, you corrupt good for nothing Washington corporatist sell-outs!

The poll also shows that reducing tax incentives for the legacy oil and gas industries is one of the top-five most popular options for helping reduce the deficit, with 59% of Americans saying they supported the option. Eliminating certain tax subsidies for the mature oil and gas industries could bring in about $45 billion over the next ten years. By comparison, the top five oil companies brought in over $76 billion in profits in 2010 alone.

In response to the calls for reducing oil and gas tax subsidies to help close the budget gap, the American Energy Alliance funded a study showing that such a move would have a net-negative budget impact of $53 billion. However, the Congressional Budget Office, the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, and the Congressional Research Service all separately found that the move would bring in billions of dollars in revenue.

From Think Progress

[Donnachaidh]

1. kick and Rec! n/t

[PoliticAverse]

2. Well the 'cut taxes' party captured the House...

At a certain point you have to reconcile what people say in polls and how they voted.

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. That is easily reconciled -

Voting is a self-selecting poll, kind of like internet polling. Those who are most interested pull the most weight. In genuine, unbiased sampling polls can show what ALL the people think.

Authoritarians will ALWAYS be over-sampled in voting because they do as they are told. That is how you get right- leaning political majorities out of a left-leaning electorate. The left show up to vote when they have something to vote FOR. They don't vote out of fear, threats, or coercion. Politicians, who are by nature right-leaning, play to those whose vote they best count on, thus shortchanging themselves the votes of the left.

And there it is.

[Cleita]

3. K&R

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