Poll: 53% favor cuts for families at $250,000 or less, 26% say keep both, 14% say let them expire

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Washington (CNN) - As top Democrats and Republicans continue negotiations over extending the Bush-era tax cuts, a new national poll indicates that a slight majority of Americans are opposed to the wealthiest Americans receiving those cuts.

According to a CBS News survey released Thursday evening, 53 percent of the public says that the cuts should be extended only for families making a combined income of less that $250,000 a year, with 26 percent saying the lower tax rates should be continued for all Americans, and 14 percent saying they should be allowed to expire at the end of the year.

Four in ten questioned in a USA Today/Gallup survey released Wednesday say that the cuts should be extended for all Americans, with 44 percent saying they support extending the tax breaks but setting limits on how much of wealthy Americans' income is eligible for the lower rates, and 13 percent saying the cuts should be allowed to expire at the end of the year.

An Associated Press-CNBC poll released Tuesday indicates that half of those questioned wanted tax cuts to be extended only for families making under $250,000 a year, with 34 percent saying they should be extended for all Americans, and 14 percent calling for the cuts to sunset for everyone at the end of the year.


read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/03/poll-majority-say-no-tax-cut-extension-for-wealthy/

[TwilightGardener]

1. I've just said in another thread that the unemployment picture has doomed

the plan to allow tax cuts to expire for the wealthy. I think it's the nail in the coffin on that idea (although it was probably doomed already). They will trade extensions for unemployment benefits, and hopefully some job-stimulating concessions.

[NNN0LHI]

2. Thats only 93%. What happened to the other 7 percent?

[DenverDad]

4. They "don't know"

or have "no opinion". This would be the "no information" voter.

[demosincebirth]

3. I can't believe the 53%.

[laughingliberal]

5. Since when did anyone care what the public wanted? nt