The WSJ polls didn't give the option to eliminate the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy class only! Yet that didn't stop the WSJ/FOX CORP. from trotting out this deceitful poll.
Gallup Polls which gave that obvious option indicated a majority of Americans support eliminating tax cuts for the wealthy class only!
http://www.gallup.com/poll/142940/americans-allowing-tax-cuts-wealthy-expire.aspx Need more proof a majority of Americans want the Bush tax cuts to expire FOR THE WEALTHY ONLY???
http://www.gallup.com/poll/144989/vast-majority-wants-aspect-bush-tax-cuts-extended.aspxPlease review below:
THE POLL FROM HELL
President Obama, John Boehner, the Republican Party and the mainstream media all point toward a Dec. 13, 2010 Washington Post poll as de facto evidence of the notion that a majority of Americans support tax cuts for the wealthy top two per cent:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll_12132010.html Washington Post-ABC News poll finds broad bipartisan support for tax package
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/13/AR2010121302373.html?hpid=topnews One would think that if you conducted a poll on the issue of extending the Bush tax cuts, the pollster would give at least three options:
1. Extending tax cuts for everyone;
2. Extending tax cuts for no one;
3. Extending tax cuts for everyone EXCEPT the top two-percent class.
BUT NO! THAT'S NOT WHAT THE WASHINGTON POST DID!
The Washington Post gave only two choices:
1. Extending tax cuts for everyone;
2. Extending tax cuts for no one;
Shouldn't you be upset that the President of the United States relied upon this poll as evidence of and justification for extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy top two-percent?
Shouldn't you be upset that the Republican Party points to and relies upon this polls as evidence and justification of their attitude that extending tax cuts for the wealthy is something a majority of Americans support?
Shouldn't you be upset the MSM pedals and promotes this poll as fact? The pundits regurgitate this info as "conventional knowledge." Black is white; up is down, and tax cuts for the wealthy produces jobs. Ba-Da-Bing!
Here's what Gallup Editor-In-Chief Frank Newport says about polls and the Bush tax cuts:
The data suggest that given options, Americans would tilt toward allowing tax cuts to remain for all but the wealthy. This is shown in our Gallup data, and in other polls (see here and here, as examples). Most Americans make under $250,000 a year, the minimum definition of “wealthy” used by President Obama and in most question wordings. It is thus not surprising to find that Americans are OK with higher taxes for these higher-income families.
http://pollingmatters.gallup.com/2010/12/americans-and-obama-tax-cut-compromise.html Further, here's what a Gallup poll providing the third option looks like:
September 10, 2010
Americans OK Allowing Tax Cuts for Wealthy to Expire
One in three favor keeping tax cuts for all taxpayers
by Jeffrey M. Jones
PRINCETON, NJ -- A majority of Americans favor letting the tax cuts enacted during the Bush administration expire for the wealthy. While 37% support keeping the tax cuts for all Americans, 44% want them extended only for those making less than $250,000 and 15% think they should expire for all taxpayers.
These results are based on an Aug. 27-30 USA Today/Gallup poll. The fate of the 2001 and 2003 federal income tax cuts that were a centerpiece of Bush administration policy could be a significant campaign issue this fall. The tax cuts are set to expire after this year unless Congress votes to extend them. Congress plans to take up the issue next week when it returns to session.
It appears as though Congress, like the American public, broadly agrees that the tax cuts should be extended for American families earning less than $250,000. The debate Congress will have this fall will be over whether to extend the tax cuts for wealthier Americans. Most Republicans and some Democrats in Congress are thought to favor extending them for wealthier Americans. President Obama said Wednesday that he is opposed to any plan that would extend the tax cuts for wealthier Americans.
The president's views on ending the tax cuts for wealthy Americans are in line with the views of the majority of rank-and-file Democrats. Meanwhile, the majority of Republicans want the tax cuts extended for all taxpayers, regardless of their income level. Independents' views fall between those of the two groups, but a majority (56%) would seem to endorse the idea of not extending tax cuts for higher-income Americans, whether or not they want them extended for middle- and lower-income Americans.
Bottom Line
With about one in three Americans, including a minority of independents and Democrats, in favor of extending the Bush-era tax cuts for all taxpayers, Democrats may not be putting themselves at great political risk by allowing the tax cuts to expire for wealthy Americans. In fact, the middle ground of extending tax cuts for low- and middle-income Americans but allowing them to expire for wealthy Americans -- the Democrats' most likely proposal -- is the specific option the public prefers most.
Gallup has typically found Americans unsympathetic to the argument that upper-income Americans are overtaxed. They generally believe upper-income Americans pay too little in taxes and favor higher taxes on wealthy Americans as a means to fund government programs, such as Social Security.
Survey Methods
Results for this USA Today/Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Aug. 27-30, 2010, with a random sample of 1,021 adults, aged 18 and older, living in the continental U.S., selected using random-digit-dial sampling.
For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points.
Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones (for respondents with a landline telephone) and cellular phones (for respondents who are cell phone-only). Each sample includes a minimum quota of 150 cell phone-only respondents and 850 landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas among landline respondents for gender within region. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday.
Samples are weighted by gender, age, race, education, region, and phone lines. Demographic weighting targets are based on the March 2009 Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older non-institutionalized population living in continental U.S. telephone households. All reported margins of sampling error include the computed design effects for weighting and sample design.
In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.
View methodology, full question results, and trend data.
For more details on Gallup's polling methodology, visit
http://www.gallup.com/. http://www.gallup.com/poll/142940/americans-allowing-tax-cuts-wealthy-expire.aspx Need more proof a majority of Americans want the Bush tax cuts to expire FOR THE WEALTHY ONLY???
http://www.gallup.com/poll/144989/vast-majority-wants-aspect-bush-tax-cuts-extended.aspx December 1, 2010
Vast Majority Wants Some Aspect of Bush Tax Cuts Extended
More Americans would make tax cuts temporary than permanent
by Lydia Saad
PRINCETON, NJ -- As Congress considers what to do about the Bush tax cuts that are set to expire at the end of this year, Americans are sending a clear signal that they want them extended in some shape or form. Forty percent want Congress to maintain the tax cuts for everyone, while 44% support setting limits on how much of wealthy Americans' income is eligible for the lower rates.
UPDATE TODAY DEC. 15, 2010:
Tax-cut plan clears Senate easily
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