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rulemylife -> RE: Obamas Senior Moment (7/19/2011 8:07:28 AM)
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ORIGINAL: popeye1250
He had another senior moment today when he said that "80% of the American People want the budget deficit funded with *"cuts and revenues.*"
Why didn't he just say "higher taxes?" "Revenues?"
I asked a few people out by the pool and mailboxes if they wanted higher taxes and they said "NO!"
And, we must have *someone* in this site who was polled to get that "80%" figure right? Funny, I didn't hear anything about such a poll.
Maybe he got confused and he was talking about the "troops and minefields along the Mexican Border poll?"
Maybe he'll admit that the govt. screwed up our finances but,....."we won't do it again so give us more of your hard earned money!"
Boy, with all this transparency comming out of Washington I think I'll start wearing my sunglasses all the time, and keep my hip boots handy.
Yeah, that's the problem with you political independents Popeye, you spend too much time talking to those other political independents out at the pool and mailbox instead of paying attention to what's going on.
GOP Position “No New Taxes” Is Rapidly Crumbling
A May 11 Pew report reminds us that the original Bush tax cuts in 2001 were supported only because the budget surpluses of the Clinton administration were expected to continue for some time. Nor were tax cuts peoples’ preferred option for dealing with the surpluses: 37 percent favored increased spending for Social Security and Medicare, 23 percent wanted other domestic spending raised, and only 19 percent favored a tax cut.
Furthermore, people accepted from the beginning that if budget surpluses failed to materialize then the tax cuts would need to be curtailed; 73 percent of people said that the Bush tax cuts needed to automatically be scaled-back if surpluses turned out to be smaller than expected. Of course, the surpluses were much smaller; in fact, they evaporated within a year. Rather than admit their error, however, additional tax cuts were rammed through.
Although Republicans insist that the Obama administration’s policies are largely, if not exclusively, responsible for the deficit, the American people know better. According to an April New York Times/CBS News poll, 41 percent of people primarily blame the Bush administration for today’s deficit; only 14 percent blame Obama. That same poll found that an overwhelming 72 percent of people support raising taxes on couples making more than $250,000 in order to reduce the deficit. The House Republican budget plan would slash taxes for the rich by reducing the top income tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent, in exchange for limiting or eliminating longstanding tax breaks. The plan would still require larger budget cuts to achieve budget balance.
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