And then … the oral sex!
A CBS poll published yesterday found that 14% of those surveyed want all cuts to expire (26% want to keep all of them, 53% want to keep only those for <$250K, and 7% don’t know).
If you follow the link, poll results are also broken down by party.
I’m honestly kind of shocked that a whole 41% Republicans agree the tax cuts need to expire on the rich. That’s a lot more than I expected.
Am I the only one that remembers Bush standing up and saying he needed the threat of credible force to negotiate with Saddam? That the congressional vote was for negotiation and only as a last resort would be used for war?
and am I the only one that remembers Colin Powell showing evidence to the UN about Saddam’s nuclear weapons program and his non compliance with inspections? And did I by some chance miss that weapons of mass destruction were actually uncovered in Iraq.
Democrats maybe acquised on the war but were not the drivers and its a pretty big stretch to paint them as enablers.
It’s notable that the CBS poll was conducted Nov 29 - Dec 1. A prior USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted Nov. 19-21, had some different numbers: while 13% wanted all the cuts to expire (just a percentage point less), 40% wanted to keep all, 44% wanted to keep <$250K, and 3% had no opinion.
Again, there’s a breakdown by party near the end of the article, which shows marked changes relative to the CBS poll. Whether the changes are due to results being more recent or other factors, I don’t feel justified in hazarding a guess.
Ok, ok, back to Frank’s taxes. I think the Bush tax cuts should be extended for the middle class, and rates about $250,000 should revert to Clinton levels. Here’s why. Reversing the Bush tax cuts won’t solve our budgetary problems alone. There will be further adjustments necessary, and a most of it will burden the middle class to some extent. Specifically, even if we get the right sort of health care controls in place, there will still be calls for more consumption taxes, be they in the form of charges for CO2 output or a VAT. So we’re going to be hitting Frank’s pocketbook from all angles over the next 30 years: we may as well cut him some slack this once. Then again, that’s a political argument and heck what do I know?
I wish we had continued the fiscally responsible policies of the Clinton administration: we would have been better prepared for security and financial crises. But that’s water under the bridge.
----- I’m honestly kind of shocked that a whole 41% Republicans agree the tax cuts need to expire on the rich. That’s a lot more than I expected.
I’m not. There’s an under-appreciated disconnect between Washington Republicans and the rank and file. A lot of the conservative Washington proposals don’t play all that well in focus groups. It’s just that voting has a tribal and impressionist aspect to it.
Oh Fuck.
Looks like I picked the wrong century to quit sniffing glue.
It is not Bush starting 2 wars. It is he did not fund them. In case you can not figure it out, that is a huge way to run deficits. Toss in a huge tax cut while war is going on, you have to conclude Bush did not think the deficit matters. Of course he and Cheney also said that in case you have doubts. You can not lay the deficits on Obama.
That’s nothing - I’m invading North Korea next week.