Most Americans want balanced budget but no increased taxes or cuts

[The_Professor]

Do Americans want their cake and eat it too?

Poll: Balance the budget? Yes and no
An MSN-Zogby poll says most Americans want the next president to make the government live within its means. But they don't support cuts in programs and aren't willing to pay more taxes.

By Bradley Meacham
The vast majority of Americans want the next president to balance the government's books, yet they oppose cuts in the costliest federal programs...

Most Americans oppose cuts in major government programs, but 50% also said they wouldn't vote for a candidate who proposed higher taxes to balance the budget. Only 35% said they would be willing to pay more taxes to maintain the current level of spending....

According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, rising costs for entitlements such as Social Security and health care could eventually result in ballooning deficits and swamp all other programs.



see http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/News/PollBalanceTheBudgetYesAndNo.aspx?gt1=10328 for full article

[sirs]

count me in on the side willing to look cuts as a viable option for balancing the budget.  We do it in our budget all the time.  Not sure why it can't be performed at a Government level

[The_Professor]

Perhaps a bi-partisan committee to make the cuts and increase taxes if absolutely necessary?

[sirs]

Perhaps a bi-partisan committee to make the cuts and increase taxes if absolutely necessary?

Considering the amount of taxation we're already subjected to, and the amount of increased revenues that have been pouring into the treasury by what tax cuts we received initially during this administration, I see no "absolutely necessary" scenario, if the goal is to balance the budget.  If the goal is to facilitate americans to do certain things the government deems them necessary to do, or in the name of "fairness", that's when you start applying tax cuts.  Wrongly of course, but that's generally when it's done