64% Say Tax the Rich!

[Shogun]

A national McClatchy-Marist poll shows a 64% to 33% spread in favor of increasing taxes on incomes above $250,000 instead of slashing Medicare and Medicaid.

"At the same time, they say that the government should not raise the legal debt ceiling, which the government must do soon to borrow more money, despite warnings that failing to do so would force the government into default, credit markets into turmoil and the economy into a tailspin."

"By 69-24 percent, voters oppose raising the legal ceiling for debt. That includes Democrats, who oppose it by 53-36 percent, independents, who oppose it by 74-22 percent, and Republicans, who oppose it by 79-16 percent."

Views on cutting defense spending are more mixed. While voters oppose cuts to Medicare and Medicaid by 80-18 percent only 44% support cutting the Pentagon with 54% opposed.

"Other findings:

* Only 44 percent of voters approve of Obama's job performance, while 49 percent disapprove. That was down from 48 percent approval in January, and marked the 17th straight month that his approval has been below 50 percent;
* Only 34 percent of voters approve, and 61 percent disapprove, of the way he's handling the budget deficit, projected to total about $1.6 trillion this year;
* Only 30 percent approve of the way Republicans in Congress are doing their job, while 63 percent disapprove."

Poll: Best Way to Fight Deficits: Raise Taxes on the Rich | Common Dreams

Lets just do whatever the mob wants. That's democracy isn't it?

blah blah blah.. you'd call it a fucking mandate if the mob were spouting YOUR opinions.



Tax the rich and tariff imports on nations that don't trade evenly with the US.

 

[auditor0007]

I'm shocked, totally shocked I tell you, that you can find a poll where people agree that raising taxes on someone else is OK.

Yes it would be a terrible thing to raise tax rates on those who have seen their tax rates drop so much over the years. Instead we should tax the lowest income earners more. I'm sure we'll get a lot out of them. And at the same time, let's cut any programs for those with the least income. Then we can cut taxes even more for those of us who are doing okay. That way we can invest more of our money to provide more $8 an hour jobs for those poor bastards that will be paying more in taxes.

 

[martybegan]

I'm shocked, totally shocked I tell you, that you can find a poll where people agree that raising taxes on someone else is OK.

Yes it would be a terrible thing to raise tax rates on those who have seen their tax rates drop so much over the years. Instead we should tax the lowest income earners more. I'm sure we'll get a lot out of them. And at the same time, let's cut any programs for those with the least income. Then we can cut taxes even more for those of us who are doing okay. That way we can invest more of our money to provide more $8 an hour jobs for those poor bastards that will be paying more in taxes.

8/10 on the sarcasm meter, 1/10 on the originality meter.

I dont want to raise taxes on anybody. What I would like is for the government to get out of the charity business. The purpose of government is not to right percived wrongs of class imbalance, or income inbalance. The basic purpose of government is to provide basic regulation of how we interact with each other. We have turned government into a giant nanny.

If you want to help poor people so much either create or donate to a charity that does that, and convince people of means to help you. Don't try to use the government as your bully boy to force others to pay for things that a) are not in the constitution and b) you think are a good idea.

 

[Nic_Driver]

Fewer than one in three — 32 percent of registered voters — think the country's headed in the right direction, while 63 percent think it's headed in the wrong direction.

For three decades we have conducted a massive economic experiment, testing a theory known as supply-side economics. The theory goes like this: Lower tax rates will encourage more investment, which in turn will mean more jobs and greater prosperity—so much so that tax revenues will go up, despite lower rates. The late Milton Friedman, the libertarian economist who wanted to shut down public parks because he considered them socialism, promoted this strategy. Ronald Reagan embraced Friedman’s ideas and made them into policy when he was elected president in 1980.

For the past decade, we have doubled down on this theory of supply-side economics with the tax cuts sponsored by President George W. Bush in 2001 and 2003, which President Obama has agreed to continue for two years.

You would think that whether this grand experiment worked would be settled after three decades. You would think the practitioners of the dismal science of economics would look at their demand curves and the data on incomes and taxes and pronounce a verdict, the way Galileo and Copernicus did when they showed that geocentrism was a fantasy because Earth revolves around the sun (known as heliocentrism). But economics is not like that. It is not like physics with its laws and arithmetic with its absolute values.

Tax policy is something the framers left to politics. And in politics, the facts often matter less than who has the biggest bullhorn.

The Mad Men who once ran campaigns featuring doctors extolling the health benefits of smoking are now busy marketing the dogma that tax cuts mean broad prosperity, no matter what the facts show.

 

[mascale]

Among matters that are rarely discussed in public: In the Acts of the Apostles, the original Christians were actually fairly communist about the whole thing.

For people who remember Robert Welch, (Bob, The Grape Juice Man), and the John Birch Society--Birch as in tree, not Birth as in Nativity. . .or even as in Monkey(?), in Orange County, CA--Then these were not Big C Communists, but were little c communists.

Robert Welch knew a thing or two about Socialists, so called them all "communists," and then declared them a divided kind of concept. Bush would later on seek to be a "uniter" kind of concept.

In neither case, was "three or above" ever on radar.

So the original Christians would expect greater and extra largesse from the rich, glaringly from one called Barnabas, to be put into the common pool, from which everyone drew according to need.

Like unto Rand Paul, and to father of Rand Paul, these people did not have a military as apart of the common pool--unless Rand Paul and father of Rand Paul do not think like Christians. That would make them Socialists, more like Israel is Socialist.

Christians expect extra largesse from the rich as a normative part of the common pool creation, and especially where there are separate and equal pools for everyone(!). . .which is how it works, anyone could say! In market economies, then it would be reasonable for even the non-Christian Socialists to expect greater and extra largesse from the rich: To provide a common market, viable for the sale of goods and services.

And then it's back to the opening phrase, of the opening sentence, of the opening paragraph.

"Crow, James Crow: Shaken, Not Stirred!"
(Many maybe need snappy, new, non-negro dialect: To start real discussions of economies, and Christians, and Socialists worldwide.)

 

[teapartysamurai]

A national McClatchy-Marist poll shows a 64% to 33% spread in favor of increasing taxes on incomes above $250,000 instead of slashing Medicare and Medicaid.

"At the same time, they say that the government should not raise the legal debt ceiling, which the government must do soon to borrow more money, despite warnings that failing to do so would force the government into default, credit markets into turmoil and the economy into a tailspin."

"By 69-24 percent, voters oppose raising the legal ceiling for debt. That includes Democrats, who oppose it by 53-36 percent, independents, who oppose it by 74-22 percent, and Republicans, who oppose it by 79-16 percent."

Views on cutting defense spending are more mixed. While voters oppose cuts to Medicare and Medicaid by 80-18 percent only 44% support cutting the Pentagon with 54% opposed.

"Other findings:

* Only 44 percent of voters approve of Obama's job performance, while 49 percent disapprove. That was down from 48 percent approval in January, and marked the 17th straight month that his approval has been below 50 percent;
* Only 34 percent of voters approve, and 61 percent disapprove, of the way he's handling the budget deficit, projected to total about $1.6 trillion this year;
* Only 30 percent approve of the way Republicans in Congress are doing their job, while 63 percent disapprove."

Poll: Best Way to Fight Deficits: Raise Taxes on the Rich | Common Dreams

Lets just do whatever the mob wants. That's democracy isn't it?

blah blah blah.. you'd call it a fucking mandate if the mob were spouting YOUR opinions.



Tax the rich and tariff imports on nations that don't trade evenly with the US.

We did that with the Smoot/Hawley tarriff tax. IT WAS AN ECONOMIC DISASTER!

 

[Claudette]

I'm shocked, totally shocked I tell you, that you can find a poll where people agree that raising taxes on someone else is OK.

Yes it would be a terrible thing to raise tax rates on those who have seen their tax rates drop so much over the years. Instead we should tax the lowest income earners more. I'm sure we'll get a lot out of them. And at the same time, let's cut any programs for those with the least income. Then we can cut taxes even more for those of us who are doing okay. That way we can invest more of our money to provide more $8 an hour jobs for those poor bastards that will be paying more in taxes.

8/10 on the sarcasm meter, 1/10 on the originality meter.

I dont want to raise taxes on anybody. What I would like is for the government to get out of the charity business. The purpose of government is not to right percived wrongs of class imbalance, or income inbalance. The basic purpose of government is to provide basic regulation of how we interact with each other. We have turned government into a giant nanny.

If you want to help poor people so much either create or donate to a charity that does that, and convince people of means to help you. Don't try to use the government as your bully boy to force others to pay for things that a) are not in the constitution and b) you think are a good idea.

My sentiments exactly.

if all these bleeding hearts wanna help the poor and downtrodden then let em whip out their wallets and checkbooks and have at it.

Kudo's to em for their efforts. Of course they will be broke in no time. If anyone thinks those poor and downtrodden are gonna get off their asses to go to work when a free ride is there for the taking then they are living in la la land.

They will all be kissing their hard earned money goodby, just like we taxpayers do now.

 

[Bern80]

This poll shows the same results as a number of recent polls and all people can do is disparage the poll? Increasing taxes for millionaires is what people want. Why is that so difficult to understand?

It isn't difficult to understand at all. It may very well be accurate. It doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

 

[Mr Liberty]

A national McClatchy-Marist poll shows a 64% to 33% spread in favor of increasing taxes on incomes above $250,000 instead of slashing Medicare and Medicaid.

"At the same time, they say that the government should not raise the legal debt ceiling, which the government must do soon to borrow more money, despite warnings that failing to do so would force the government into default, credit markets into turmoil and the economy into a tailspin."

"By 69-24 percent, voters oppose raising the legal ceiling for debt. That includes Democrats, who oppose it by 53-36 percent, independents, who oppose it by 74-22 percent, and Republicans, who oppose it by 79-16 percent."

Views on cutting defense spending are more mixed. While voters oppose cuts to Medicare and Medicaid by 80-18 percent only 44% support cutting the Pentagon with 54% opposed.

"Other findings:

* Only 44 percent of voters approve of Obama's job performance, while 49 percent disapprove. That was down from 48 percent approval in January, and marked the 17th straight month that his approval has been below 50 percent;
* Only 34 percent of voters approve, and 61 percent disapprove, of the way he's handling the budget deficit, projected to total about $1.6 trillion this year;
* Only 30 percent approve of the way Republicans in Congress are doing their job, while 63 percent disapprove."

Poll: Best Way to Fight Deficits: Raise Taxes on the Rich | Common Dreams

Lets just do whatever the mob wants. That's democracy isn't it?

blah blah blah.. you'd call it a fucking mandate if the mob were spouting YOUR opinions.



Tax the rich and tariff imports on nations that don't trade evenly with the US.

What you are promoting is Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act and the Revenue Act of 1932. Considering the results of these measures on the Great Depression are you sure you want to implement them now?
Even with your apparent moral relativism is this the result you want?

 

[Vanquish]

Well, I can see this is the talking points that have gone out from the Obama camp.

Say you guys are for spending cuts as long as Obama gets his tax hike.

I'M NOT BUYING IT.

I know damn well, as soon as Obama gets the tax hike, he won't cut spending on anything BUT THE MILITARY (as Clinton did in the 90s).

I guess you think this is going to fool everybody, but I know it's BS.

I have NEVER seen a liberal that ever cut a dime of spending from the government, except military spending.

The problem with that being, every time we cut the military, something like Pearl Harbor or 9/11 happens and then we have to spend tons to catch up. It never works out.

It's not a talking point...it's simple math, teaparty.

Cutting alone ISNT GOING TO AMOUNT TO THE VAST AMOUNT WE NEED TO FIX THE PROBLEM!!!

We've got to get the deficit AND the national debt under control WITH A QUICKNESS...and the only way to do it as fast as we need to is to cut until it hurts and tax on top of that.

I still havent heard a decent argument against progressive taxation. I'm not buying the whole "it's only fair" argument...as the rich (yes Im singling them out) have more opportunities and ability to use their wealth to lobby for beneficial laws than the poor and middle class do.

 

[Mr Liberty]

Well, I can see this is the talking points that have gone out from the Obama camp.

Say you guys are for spending cuts as long as Obama gets his tax hike.

I'M NOT BUYING IT.

I know damn well, as soon as Obama gets the tax hike, he won't cut spending on anything BUT THE MILITARY (as Clinton did in the 90s).

I guess you think this is going to fool everybody, but I know it's BS.

I have NEVER seen a liberal that ever cut a dime of spending from the government, except military spending.

The problem with that being, every time we cut the military, something like Pearl Harbor or 9/11 happens and then we have to spend tons to catch up. It never works out.

It's not a talking point...it's simple math, teaparty.

Cutting alone ISNT GOING TO AMOUNT TO THE VAST AMOUNT WE NEED TO FIX THE PROBLEM!!!

We've got to get the deficit AND the national debt under control WITH A QUICKNESS...and the only way to do it as fast as we need to is to cut until it hurts and tax on top of that.

I still havent heard a decent argument against progressive taxation. I'm not buying the whole "it's only fair" argument...as the rich (yes Im singling them out) have more opportunities and ability to use their wealth to lobby for beneficial laws than the poor and middle class do.

But there are NOT enough rich people to tax. Either they will have to raise taxes on all of us or they can just continue to print money until hyperinflation pushes the average middle class income to $250,000.
We have copied the same spending habits as Greece, Spain and Portugal. The only reason we haven't suffered as much as they have, is we can devalue our currency. At the rate they are printing, it is just a matter of time, for the tax you are supporting to be the tax you are paying.

 

[georgephillip]

A national McClatchy-Marist poll shows a 64% to 33% spread in favor of increasing taxes on incomes above $250,000 instead of slashing Medicare and Medicaid.

"At the same time, they say that the government should not raise the legal debt ceiling, which the government must do soon to borrow more money, despite warnings that failing to do so would force the government into default, credit markets into turmoil and the economy into a tailspin."

"By 69-24 percent, voters oppose raising the legal ceiling for debt. That includes Democrats, who oppose it by 53-36 percent, independents, who oppose it by 74-22 percent, and Republicans, who oppose it by 79-16 percent."

Views on cutting defense spending are more mixed. While voters oppose cuts to Medicare and Medicaid by 80-18 percent only 44% support cutting the Pentagon with 54% opposed.

"Other findings:

* Only 44 percent of voters approve of Obama's job performance, while 49 percent disapprove. That was down from 48 percent approval in January, and marked the 17th straight month that his approval has been below 50 percent;
* Only 34 percent of voters approve, and 61 percent disapprove, of the way he's handling the budget deficit, projected to total about $1.6 trillion this year;
* Only 30 percent approve of the way Republicans in Congress are doing their job, while 63 percent disapprove."

Poll: Best Way to Fight Deficits: Raise Taxes on the Rich | Common Dreams

Just to keep it real in here........"Common Dreams" is a hyper-left partisan website frequently referenced by hard left k00ks. Might as well be posting up a link from the DailyKos.

Only dolts think you solve the debt problem simply by taxing the wealthy. You'd still have an uber debt problem.

The motivation by the class warfare nutballs is always the same: jealousy, misery, inability to accept responsibility for personal decision fcukk ups., etc..........its always about fcukking the successful guys for these types, no matter what the cost. Virtually ALL economists concur: You go progressive with taxes now, its madness given the fragile ecomomy.

Good post.

You could take every dime from every "evil" rich person out there and it wouldn't make a dent it whats owed.

I agree on raising taxes at this time as well is ridiculous. I listened to the speech the Prez gave yesterday to all the gullible college kids. All he talked about was basically class warfare and how anything the Reps come up with is gonna throw grandma in the street and starve all the kids. This guy doesn't seem to want to do much economy fixing. He just wants to raise taxes.

If you want to raise revenue they need to plug the tax loopholes, get rid of a lot of the tax breaks and the subsidies. Stop nannying everything and everyone. People need to stand on their own two feet and take care of themselves. That goes for companies as well.

Medicare needs a massive overhaul and I think Ryan has the right idea. Folks should only be able to draw what they have put into Medicare and SS. I can hear the screaming now.

We also need to stop fighting wars all over the place. Bring our troops home and cut defense spending big time. Cut loads of foreign aide and tell other countries to take care of themselves.

No one on the left is talking about taking every dime from the rich, evil or otherwise. Are you aware of that?

Do you think those who inflated and crashed the housing bubble deserve to have their tax rate lowered to 25% like Ryan wants? The reason Medicare needs its massive overhaul is the cost of corporate health care, and no Republican OR Democrat will get reelected if they challenge that aspect of the conservative nanny state.

Those who have increased their share of national income and wealth over the last three decades should sacrifice along with those on Social Security who didn't see a COLA again this year.

Or is that too communistic?

 

[georgephillip]

That shows me that voters have no real idea what the debt ceiling is. Its also proof that just because something is popular doesnt mean it is right.

The line from Dumbledore sums it up pretty good, "Soon we will all have a choice between what is right, and what is easy. "

That sounds like a choice about Empire.

"The Empire rips up the Constitution and takes the reserve army of the young unemployed to kill and die in aggressive wars of the White House’s choice, with Congress watching from the sidelines; its only role to funnel trillions of tax dollars into the insatiable war machine’s unauditable budgets.

"President Eisenhower wanted us to control the 'military-industrial complex'. Instead it grew much more out of control. Eisenhower’s grave warning as expressed in his farewell address in 1961 was prescient."

Waiting for the Spark | Common Dreams

Um, yeah, whatever. The point is that maybe the fix for this whole situation is poltical suicide, and it will take one hell of a person to be able to run sucessfully on the platform of doing what is nessasary.

Whenever people quote the whole military industrial complex, they forget that Eisenhower said it was nessasary as well, given the current techological level of military conflict.

It seems likely to me any president who made enough hard choices in her/his first term would never see a second. Reforming the Pentagon and shifting the burden of taxation onto unearned (FIRE sector) income would probably be enough to ensure a "one and done" presidency for anyone who tried.

 

[georgephillip]

Pretty easy to get to 64% when 20% consider themselves liberals (socialists) and 50% of the people pay no fed taxes and are therefore leeches or parasites.

In this poll, Independents supported higher taxes on the rich by a 63-34 percent margin, Democrats by 83-15 with Republicans opposed by 43-34 percent.

Support for Medicare was even more one-sided with overall voters opposing cuts 80-18 percent and conservatives unable to find one in three voters in favor of cuts. (29-68 percent)

Poll: Best Way to Fight Deficits: Raise Taxes on the Rich | Common Dreams

 

[syrenn]

A national McClatchy-Marist poll shows a 64% to 33% spread in favor of increasing taxes on incomes above $250,000 instead of slashing Medicare and Medicaid.

"At the same time, they say that the government should not raise the legal debt ceiling, which the government must do soon to borrow more money, despite warnings that failing to do so would force the government into default, credit markets into turmoil and the economy into a tailspin."

"By 69-24 percent, voters oppose raising the legal ceiling for debt. That includes Democrats, who oppose it by 53-36 percent, independents, who oppose it by 74-22 percent, and Republicans, who oppose it by 79-16 percent."

Views on cutting defense spending are more mixed. While voters oppose cuts to Medicare and Medicaid by 80-18 percent only 44% support cutting the Pentagon with 54% opposed.

"Other findings:

* Only 44 percent of voters approve of Obama's job performance, while 49 percent disapprove. That was down from 48 percent approval in January, and marked the 17th straight month that his approval has been below 50 percent;
* Only 34 percent of voters approve, and 61 percent disapprove, of the way he's handling the budget deficit, projected to total about $1.6 trillion this year;
* Only 30 percent approve of the way Republicans in Congress are doing their job, while 63 percent disapprove."

Poll: Best Way to Fight Deficits: Raise Taxes on the Rich | Common Dreams

How about we tax the poor? See how they like it.

 

[georgephillip]

Just to keep it real in here........"Common Dreams" is a hyper-left partisan website frequently referenced by hard left k00ks. Might as well be posting up a link from the DailyKos.

Good post.

You could take every dime from every "evil" rich person out there and it wouldn't make a dent it whats owed.

I agree on raising taxes at this time as well is ridiculous.

Maybe you need to spend a little-more-time on managing your allowance, before you tackle any adult-subjects.....​

December 22, 2009​

"The curious may want to know why the Bush tax cuts are set to expire in the first place. After all, if then-President George W. Bush and Congress thought they were a good idea when they passed them in the early 2000s, why make them temporary?

The answer is that President Bush and a complicit Congress didn’t want to show the magnitude of the deficits that would result from their tax cuts. To hide those deficits as they were pushing them through they used a variety of accounting tricks. One of those tricks was attaching expiration dates so that, on paper, there wouldn’t be any long-term costs. This made the long-term deficit picture look fairly rosy on paper even as it doomed Bush’s successor and the current Congress to cleaning up the mess.

In fairness, Bush and his supply-side crowd believe with a zealot’s fervor that tax cuts spur such economic growth that future deficits never happen. Over history there are trillion$ of dollars of debt that prove them wrong."

The Teabaggers' Lament

"Policymakers are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. If they let the tax cuts expire they’ll be blamed for raising taxes. If they extend the tax cuts, the deficit picture suddenly looks worse because, on paper, we’ve been counting on the money from the tax cuts expiring to keep the deficit down. The choice of either looking like tax raisers or deficit raisers is no fun at all."

Let the Bush Tax Cuts on the Wealthy Expire

To solve problems like this one, consider FLUSHING Republicans AND Democrats from DC by the HUNDREDS in November 2012.

 

[georgephillip]

A national McClatchy-Marist poll shows a 64% to 33% spread in favor of increasing taxes on incomes above $250,000 instead of slashing Medicare and Medicaid.

"At the same time, they say that the government should not raise the legal debt ceiling, which the government must do soon to borrow more money, despite warnings that failing to do so would force the government into default, credit markets into turmoil and the economy into a tailspin."

"By 69-24 percent, voters oppose raising the legal ceiling for debt. That includes Democrats, who oppose it by 53-36 percent, independents, who oppose it by 74-22 percent, and Republicans, who oppose it by 79-16 percent."

Views on cutting defense spending are more mixed. While voters oppose cuts to Medicare and Medicaid by 80-18 percent only 44% support cutting the Pentagon with 54% opposed.

"Other findings:

* Only 44 percent of voters approve of Obama's job performance, while 49 percent disapprove. That was down from 48 percent approval in January, and marked the 17th straight month that his approval has been below 50 percent;
* Only 34 percent of voters approve, and 61 percent disapprove, of the way he's handling the budget deficit, projected to total about $1.6 trillion this year;
* Only 30 percent approve of the way Republicans in Congress are doing their job, while 63 percent disapprove."

Poll: Best Way to Fight Deficits: Raise Taxes on the Rich | Common Dreams

Congrats. You've provided a great example of why The Founders designed a system of equal protections under a Rule of Law so in order to avoid the Rule of Mob that your OP promotes.

What protections did the Founders provide for women?

You've just provided another telling example of how political conservatives organized to protect their monarchs from Democracy.

 

[georgephillip]

A national McClatchy-Marist poll shows a 64% to 33% spread in favor of increasing taxes on incomes above $250,000 instead of slashing Medicare and Medicaid.

"At the same time, they say that the government should not raise the legal debt ceiling, which the government must do soon to borrow more money, despite warnings that failing to do so would force the government into default, credit markets into turmoil and the economy into a tailspin."

"By 69-24 percent, voters oppose raising the legal ceiling for debt. That includes Democrats, who oppose it by 53-36 percent, independents, who oppose it by 74-22 percent, and Republicans, who oppose it by 79-16 percent."

Views on cutting defense spending are more mixed. While voters oppose cuts to Medicare and Medicaid by 80-18 percent only 44% support cutting the Pentagon with 54% opposed.

"Other findings:

* Only 44 percent of voters approve of Obama's job performance, while 49 percent disapprove. That was down from 48 percent approval in January, and marked the 17th straight month that his approval has been below 50 percent;
* Only 34 percent of voters approve, and 61 percent disapprove, of the way he's handling the budget deficit, projected to total about $1.6 trillion this year;
* Only 30 percent approve of the way Republicans in Congress are doing their job, while 63 percent disapprove."

Poll: Best Way to Fight Deficits: Raise Taxes on the Rich | Common Dreams

How about we tax the poor? See how they like it.

How should we define "poor?"

"One of the sensible features of the tax code is that it generally operates on marginal income. What that means in this case is that just because someone has $250,001 in income doesn’t mean they suddenly pay more taxes on their entire $250,001. They essentially only pay more in taxes on the $1 that exceeds $250,000.

"Thus, it’s not really the poor folks making $250,001 who will be hit hardest by this but those who make well more than that. Asking a bit more from people making over $250,000, even if in some places they don’t consider that to be 'rich,' isn’t asking for a huge sacrifice.

"Nowhere is it written that when additional taxes are necessary the richest of the rich should pay all of them."

Let the Bush Tax Cuts on the Wealthy Expire

 

[Lasher]

The productive American people are already taxed too much because of all your liberal heroes you have sent to Congress. What do you see wrong about requiring welfare recipients to be drug-tested?

 

[georgephillip]

This poll shows the same results as a number of recent polls and all people can do is disparage the poll? Increasing taxes for millionaires is what people want. Why is that so difficult to understand?

good then do it, and when "the people" want to come after YOUR ALL'S earnings, I say GO FOR IT.

What don't these idiots get about the economy?

We are at high unemployment and the answer is to go after the very people that produce jobs?

Oh, great idea! (extreme sarcasm alert)

If the government took every last time the "millionaires" made, they wouldn't run this government for a week!

The government borrows more than they take in! You can't TAX your way out of that!

The ONLY SOLUTION is to CUT SPENDING!

But liberals are so INVESTED in buying votes with their socialism, they will try to sell tax hikes at any cost. DESPITE THE FACT IT WON'T WORK.

As long as they think it will buy enough votes for the next election, they don't care if we go the way of Europe, especially Greece.

It's disgusting!

What role did the Bush tax cuts play in our current high levels of unemployment? What role did a nearly $13 trillion bailout of Bush's and Obama's Wall Street base play in our current high level of deficit? Why would you not raise taxes on the speculators who drove this economy off a cliff in 2008?

The richest 1% of Americans have increased their share of national wealth by nearly two percent since the Great Recession "ended."

Why don't you understand they are not through taking yet?

They should be taxed, prosecuted and jailed.