Poll: Americans want the Bush tax cuts for everyone

[Valin]

Power Line: Poll: Americans want the Bush tax cuts for everyone.

Paul Mirengoff

7/17/12

 

A new poll by McClatchy/Marist finds that most Americans — including those on the low end of the income spectrum — favor keeping the Bush tax cuts in place for all Americans. According to the poll, 52 percent of registered voters say they want all of these tax cuts extended, including those for incomes above $250,000. 43 percent want the cuts extended just for incomes below that threshhold.

 

The results are essentially the same for voters at the lower end of the income spectrum. Those making less than $50,000 per year supported tax cuts for all incomes by 53 percent to 41 percent.

 

Whites and Hispanics both want to see the tax cuts for everyone, with Hispanics favoring this position more than whites. African-Americans were evenly divided.

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[pollyannaish]

Last night I skimmed past a FB poster arguing that tax rates were the lowest they had been in 60 years. She posted a link to back up her assertion. One problem. It said that revenue rates were the lowest they had been in 60 years. Most people arguing on both sides of the issue missed that. The left trumped up the information as truth, and the right blamed the media. They were both wrong.

 

I'm heartened to see this is a 53/41 divide. But until more people understand the basic difference between rates and revenues, we're in trouble. An articulate Presidential candidate could do that. And at some point, I hope he will.

[Draggingtree]

Parties Settle In for Contentious Tax Fight

By Daniel Newhauser

Roll Call Staff

July 18, 2012, Midnight

 

What we have here is a good old-fashioned staring contest.

Both Democrats and Republicans believe their message on the extension of the Bush-era tax cuts is a winner, and with just weeks to go before August recess, neither party is likely to back down.

House Republicans, for their part, are kicking off a 10-day messaging blitz today aimed at differentiating themselves from Democrats in the runup to the chamber’s vote on extending all of the Bush-era tax cuts.

The effort will culminate in “Stop the Tax Hike Day” on July 27 — the last Friday before the House will vote to extend the entirety of the 2001 and 2003 tax rates during the week of July 30.

House leadership is organizing Republicans to travel back to their districts and hold events with small-business owners that day, emphasizing the GOP talking point that increasing taxes on those making more than $250,000 would hurt small businesses and job creation. Read More

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/58_7/Parties-Settle-In-for-Contentious-Tax-Fight-216221-1.html