What America Wants From The Super Committee - By The Numbers

[EFerrari]

Kyle Leighton | August 10, 2011, 12:40PM

Since the establishment of the congressional super committee to come up with a way to reduce the deficit by over $1.5 trillion over ten years, most of the focus has been on who will be appointed and how those individual personalities will affect the debate, or whether the hearings will be public. But over the past few days news organizations have released new polling data on what policy prescriptions Americans would actually prefer, mostly from a menu of traditional options (cuts to major programs, well known new tax options), to bridge the budget gap.

CNN, Gallup, and Marist all polled some of these options, and here's a quick rundown of what might happen if you put the American people at the table.

New Targeted Taxes On The Wealthy And Corporations

President Obama and Congressional Democrats have been hammering away at the need for a balanced approach (read: new revenues in addition to cuts) to the debt problem, and simply put, they have a lot of support on their side. In the CNN poll, 63% of Americans supported "increases in taxes on businesses and higher-income Americans," vs. 36% opposed. 66% agreed with "raising taxes for upper-income Americans" in the Gallup survey, including 45% of Republicans and 37% of Tea Party supporters. The Marist poll showed support for two types of new revenues: increasing taxes on those making more than $250,000 got 68% approval, and eliminating subsidies for oil and gas companies got 60%.

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[vi5]

1. Great!

I mean this should be good news for all the spinners on here who like to say that "Obama is president of the whole country, not just the left." O.K. then if that is the case, the majority of the whole country wants taxes raised on the wealthiest and no cuts to entitlements. So it should be a no brainer that he draw a clear, distinct, and unequivical line in the sand on those issues.

Right?

[EFerrari]

2. Or the majority of the nation has suddenly joined the far fringe left.

:)

[FiveGoodMen]

3. But the Super Committee was formed so that Americans would have no say

[EFerrari]

4. Yep. But at least someone thought to ask FTR. n/t

[mmonk]

5. But the super committee wasn't created for the interests of the people.

So it doesn't matter what the people want rightly or wrongly.

[EFerrari]

6. True but at least we can keep track of what the MSM tries so hard to bury. n/t

[mmonk]

7. True.