Author Topic: What's this?...most folks say "the rich" already pay their "fair share"?  (Read 464 times)

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sirs

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Nice to know how connected Obama and the left are connected to Joe & Jane America.................not
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Poll: Vast Majority of Likely Voters Think Rich Already Pay Their Fair Share
BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff - February 27, 2012

Despite President Obama and Democrats’ insistence that the rich “pay their fair share,” three-quarters of likely voters believe the nation’s richest should pay lower, not higher, taxes, according to a poll conducted by the Hill.

The Hill reports:

The big majority opted for a lower tax bill when asked to choose specific rates; precisely 75 percent said the right level for top earners was 30 percent or below.

The current rate for top earners is 35 percent. Only 4 percent thought it was appropriate to take 40 percent, which is approximately the level that President Obama is seeking from January 2013 onward.

The Hill poll also found that 73 percent of likely voters believe corporations should pay a lower rate than the current 35 percent, as both the White House and Republicans push plans to lower rates.

The new data seem to run counter to several polls that have found support for raising taxes on high-income earners. In an Associated Press-GfK poll released Friday, 65 percent said they favored President Obama’s “Buffett Rule” that millionaires should pay at least 30 percent of their income. And a Pew poll conducted in June found 66 percent of adults favored raising taxes on those making more than $250,000 as a way to tackle the deficit.


Once again, it's the Republicans' election to lose
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." -- Aristotle

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    What level of taxation causes a population to rebel?

    I don't think GeorgeIII ever got nearly 35%.

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Incrimentalism....1% increase here.....2% increase there.  That's the left's biggest weapon.  And they've nearly achieved their goal, where nearly half the population doesn't even pay income taxes, so that when that majority is achieved, they can facilitate that majority to continue vote increases at "the rich", and the "minority" that pays the VAST majority of the country's bills, will be made to pay all the more........screw fairness

Its incrimentalism that George III didn't appreciate or embrace.  Otherwise America would merely be Greater Britain

HOWEVER, based on this and other similar polling, its possible that the electorate is finally catching on.  The question then becomes, is it too late
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." -- Aristotle