Leaders in Congress and President Obama are currently in the process of "fixing" the mess of our national debt. However, the President is claiming that 80% of Americans want to pay higher taxes and is using this to push through his compromise on the debt ceiling.
The Hill reports:
President Obama on Friday kept up the pressure on Republicans to agree to revenue increases in a deal to raise the debt ceiling, claiming 80 percent of the public supports Democrats' demand for tax increases.
"The American people are sold," Obama said. "The problem is members of Congress are dug in ideologically."
The President must be conducting a poll of the District of Columbia to pull those numbers out of a hat. It can be guranteed that such a huge percentage of the American people do not support a tax increase to fix the economy or the national debt.
How about we conduct a poll of Americans and see how many support cutting spending at a national level? Then we might actually get 80% support.
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I love how when Democrats are for something it's because it's good and "the right thing to do" but when Republicans are for something it's because they are "too dug in ideology". My dad is exactly the same! The Carbon Tax is great he says because it saves the planet. But when Republicans argue to lower spending to save the nation from a Greece-like Debt Crisis he calls them ideologically crazy and other such things.
A main reason why I turned away from Liberalism and the general partisanship rampant around Democrats and Republicans.
I really don't know what poll numbers he is refering to. I wish the article, or the President, had actually pointed to the survey.
If it was conducted by the DNC or a member of the DNC it is safe to assume that the questioned used made it more favourable to say "yes" to higher taxes than if it had been conducted by the GOP or an independent agency.
Simply put - the question: "Do you support an increase in taxes in coordination with a decrease in the national budget deficit?" would gather more "yes" votes than "Do you support higher taxes".
Likewise, if a question was worded as "Do you support a decrease in unneccessary spending to help lower the national budget defict" would gather more "yes" votes than "Do you support a decrease in funding to national programs to help lower the national budget deficit?"
Polls in these sorts of matter should simply be ignored if the questions used in the polling are not provided by the person siteing the polling data.
Most of Obama’s spending was stimulus. If taxes hadn't been lowered (When we increased how much we were spending on wars) we wouldn't need to worry about debt and spending. Also let’s not forget where most of bush's 1.3trillion went, Iraq. The most pointless war in history, nearly 800million was spent on basically increasing the amount of hate for us in the Middle East.
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