By della

August 27, 2010 11:42 AM | Link to this

I am a democrat and have always worked, you idiot. The Republicans have brainwashed people. For people making 250 thousand dollars, their taxes would not go up much. But, if you make over a million, they will. That is the problem. The tax base is at the 2000 level. !0 years behind. Those high wage earners have been fleecing the middle class for years. Raise their taxes.

By della

August 27, 2010 11:42 AM | Link to this

I am a democrat and have always worked, you idiot. The Republicans have brainwashed people. For people making 250 thousand dollars, their taxes would not go up much. But, if you make over a million, they will. That is the problem. The tax base is at the 2000 level. !0 years behind. Those high wage earners have been fleecing the middle class for years. Raise their taxes.

By della

August 27, 2010 11:42 AM | Link to this

I am a democrat and have always worked, you idiot. The Republicans have brainwashed people. For people making 250 thousand dollars, their taxes would not go up much. But, if you make over a million, they will. That is the problem. The tax base is at the 2000 level. !0 years behind. Those high wage earners have been fleecing the middle class for years. Raise their taxes.

By newsound14

August 24, 2010 1:59 PM | Link to this

Is it Mass Hypnosis or Brainwashing? Has our ability to process facts and ideas and think critically vanished completely? Wealth disparity in America is spiraling out of control and absurd right wing propaganda frightens people into believing this is socialism. As the difference between the very wealthy and the poor increases myriad problems get worse. The economy becomes unstable, general quality of life declines (crime, sanitation, public health, infrastructure etc.). Even the elite few would see a decline in quality of life as their surroundings become increasingly grim. America especially needs to find ways to curb wealth disparity to ensure free and fair elections, fair commerce and justice under the law. Higher taxes for the wealthy and large corporations are more than justified due to their reliance and excessive usage of public amenities and their overall impact on the environment. This has been understood for 100 years, but now our burgeoning ignorance has brought us here. Morons whining about taxes and crying socialism, at a time when we are further away from anything resembling socialism than we have ever been in our history. This endeavor will turn the U. S. A. into a third world nation in no time.

By Tax Accountant

August 23, 2010 9:13 PM | Link to this

Nobody at Rasmussen asked my opinion. I still maintain the same stance I took 10 years ago, the tax cuts would drive the budget into deeper deficits and saddle my children and grandchildren with an increasing debt load. Before the tax cuts were passed we had budget surpluses that should have been used to pay down the debt and restore our economic prosperity. After the tax cuts, the surpluses disappeared. Then, as the government took in less tax revenue, the Republican Congress approved obscene increases in spending. To add to our economic folly we got embroiled in 2 wars, without raising the funds to pay for them. I favor letting the tax cuts expire and requiring all future Congressional candidates to take some basic economics and accounting classes. Maybe we will finally get some representation in Washington that can use a calculator.

By Reality of Bush Tax Cuts

August 23, 2010 7:56 PM | Link to this

Bush provided the largets tax cuts in U.S. history…also the most expensive. Bush is ALSO repsonsible for the LOWEST job creation of ANY 2 term president since WWII. Maybe the tax cuts should have been aimed at the small business’s of this country and not the major corporations…who ultimately did not invest their money HERE!

By PJM

August 23, 2010 7:10 PM | Link to this

People, people. You can’t just select the kinds of spending you like/don’t like, ie. defense vs. welfare. Of course Obama and Dems believe in cuts — weren’t you thrilled at the announcement of library closings? Bill Clinton balanced the budget by raising taxes and making deep cuts at the same time. You pay your household bills, correct? Same thing. This is what shocks me — you still think Bush’s economic policies were successful. Here’s a thought about wealth distribution — it’s not all their money. They overreached, and something has to be done about it. We have to dedicate ourselves to preserving the middle class way of life, otherwise the gap between the wealthy and the poor keeps growing, and not in most people’s favor.

By John

August 23, 2010 5:40 PM | Link to this

All this liberal angst over the tax cuts is very enlightening. No mention of controlling spending unless it is a swipe at our military expenditures. No mention of viable solutions unless it is just soaking the “rich”. Wealth envy is alive and well along with an entitlement mentality. But I also sense a growing desperation in their realization that the progressive agenda is failing miserably and thus they react with insult and anger. Thing is they are meeting a ever growing majority that is more angry than they and have had enough with progressive, social engineering.

By Ronald Trump

August 23, 2010 5:31 PM | Link to this

I believe it was Jefferson who said something to the effect of when people realize they can vote themselves money from the public trough, our nation is doomed. Well, they have, and they are. Obama tapped into this, and he and Queen Michelle are riding it out. However, the backlash will be severe. It will be many decades before our nation trusts another black man to be president. It’s a shame too, because there are many conservative black men who could lead us back to fiscal responsibility, which would lower the debt, and allow private interprise to flourish, creating jobs and greatly reducing many of the ills progressives complain about. But then again, the progressives would deny conservatism had anything to do with it, and then demand to be given positions of power through the courts. Shame on them.

By John

August 23, 2010 5:22 PM | Link to this

A question or two for PJM… What “didn’t work” about the Bush tax cuts? Please explain. Also, do you think that controlling spending has any merit? And I am not talking about defense expeditures. One last one, why is it you feel you have any right to anyone else’s money?

By Jane Eyre

August 23, 2010 4:50 PM | Link to this

The backlash against progressives and liberals will begin on 2 Nov, and will last as long as it takes. Those fools who believe it is their right to redistribute the wealth of people smarter and harder-working than themselves will feel the pain. As Smokey the Bear said once, “only you can prevent poverty by making better decisions with your life.” When you refuse to make those better decisions, why do you demand I support you? Our nation was built on capitalist ideas, and on freedom and liberty. The progressives can not succeed under capitalism, or freedom, or liberty. They must destroy those, and replace them with socialism, government dependency, and tyranny. Why must they do this? Answer - so they can control your wealth. Why do you let them? Answer - Because you are too friggin lazy (and stupid) to control your own life. The backlash is coming. Either you will be ready for it, or you won’t. Either way, progressives will be stopped!

By Kyle L.

August 23, 2010 4:37 PM | Link to this

PJM - WTF!! Pay the rich to stay by allowing them to keep more of THERE money? The money does not belong to the government, you stupid, ignorant dumb@$$. If you are afraid of deficits, then why are you not demanding your liberal, progressive man-child in the White House slash spending? You know nothing about economics, so please stop posting. Your mom needs the computer back.

By Kyle L.

August 23, 2010 4:32 PM | Link to this

This is why liberals and progressives should not be allowed to vote. They are idiots!! They are too stupid to realize spending creates deficits. Tax cuts actually generate more revenue to the government, so they are “paid for.” How do you pay for a tax cut? REDUCE SPENDING. How many democrats propose that? NONE! They buy votes by handing out free stuff to as many people as they can. People today believe everything they want or could use is a right, guaranteed by the taxpayer. Shoot, everything a rich person has is now considered a right, and the poor demand the taxpayer pay for it for them. GET OFF YOUR LAZY BUTTS AND TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILITY! Stop blaming the “rich” for your decision to be poor. If you don’t want to be poor anymore, MAKE BETTER DECISIONS, DUMB@$$. You progressives sicken me. Get a freaken life, and stay the H*LL out of mine!! I work too hard for my money to give it to you, you lazy SOB!

By @jackov

August 23, 2010 1:18 PM | Link to this

You mean take the “thought” process out of government. Yes, a flaaat taaax, that’s the ticket. Wouldn’t want you to hurt yourself.

By Jack

August 23, 2010 1:08 PM | Link to this

Let’s take the politics out of taxation. The Fair tax would work. I am amazed at the stupidity of liberals on here. And Czartard is there leader. I can’t believe that idiot czartard is telling people they are going against there own interests by not wanting to steal from the rich and give it to themselves. What a sick demented attitude. The Czartard wants dependency not self-sufficiency. She’s just another libtard wanting a handout.

By PJM

August 23, 2010 1:05 PM | Link to this

I would grant you that the jury is still out on the economic stimulus package, but not in the sense you’re suggesting. The question is will it be enough to stave off a rock bottom scenario. Once again, you got everything you wanted under Bush, including tax cuts we could not afford — and it didn’t work. How do you defend that? You’re afraid the “wealthy” people will leave, so you’ll pay them to stay??? Did it ever occur to you that corps use more public resources than the rest of us? Including the US Armed Forces.

By joebach

August 23, 2010 12:44 PM | Link to this

how exactly does corporate welfare equal fiscal responsibility?

By LOL

August 23, 2010 12:09 PM | Link to this

Since some of you clearly slept through basic math, let me help you out on your ‘tax cuts for the rich’ nonsense: Taxes at the top level went from 39.6% to 35%, which is an 11.6% decrease. Taxes on the lowest level went from 15% to 10% which is a 33% decrease. The levels in between decreased as income increase as well. In what world does giving almost three times more in tax breaks to the bottom feeders equate to ‘tax cuts for the rich’?

By J

August 23, 2010 12:05 PM | Link to this

You will see just enough tax relief passed to buy the necessary votes in the mid-term elections. One must understand the elite Washington DC mindset….1) that they are smarter than everyone else and know what’s best for us and 2) that hosing the so called “rich” makes absolutely no difference in the voting booth as the so called “rich” are unlikely to support the left wing agenda anyway (no votes lost). In addition, the short sighted benefit of hosing the so called “rich” is the left winning additional hearts and minds of the so called “non-rich” (additional votes gained). They refuse to accept that the so called “rich” are the ones who create jobs. By hosing them, they will respond by dumping more people onto the public unemployment roles and thus steepening America’s economic death spiral. They also fail to understand that the definition of so called “rich” is a moving target. Once you deplete the resources of and/or drive the so called “rich” from American shores (yes, they have the resources to pick up and leave) the definition will morph to include the top levels of those left behind. In the limit (for you math majors) this will eventually boil down to the currently so called “non-rich” now being the so called “rich”. Can you say economic collapse? America is in deep crisis. The economic crisis pales by comparison to the spiritual and moral decay being experienced from the top levels of our government and down through the family households. Read the true American history and see that this country has a Christian foundation and the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights were all based on these principles. There is only one person powerful enough to save America and He proved this on the Cross. Pray for America, she desperately needs it.

By TRS

August 23, 2010 11:53 AM | Link to this

While the fact people are not buying may have some effect on investment, the bigger issue is the uncertainty created by this Prez policies. What business of any size would want to invest when healthcare is almost guaranteed to rise due to the healthcare bill, no one knows what the FinRef bill will do (even that author admits that) and most those who could invest expect tax increases. None of these are policies which can stimulate the economy and create growth. Again, we see comments about closing loopholes on corporations. Each of us pay corporate tax - it is just passed on so what your advocating is an indirect tax increase for all, one of the little tricks of the trade for politicians. I agree with getting rid of loopholes but more in the sense of a flat or fair consumption tax to replace our current system. Also while the deficit left by Bush is real, the doubling down on it by this Prez is also real so please, be honest for a change will ya?

By PJM

August 23, 2010 11:49 AM | Link to this

Speaking of spending, here’s an interesting article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702846.html. The war in Iraq will cost us 3 trillion. How are you going to cut social programs with the huge increases in the senior population. And they wanted to privatize social security. Thanks again Duh-bya.

By lucifer sam

August 23, 2010 11:36 AM | Link to this

The Bush Deficit Increase may have seemed like a nice idea at the time, but now it’s time to pay the piper. Want to lower income taxes? Close a few corporate tax loopholes and pay for them first.

By informed

August 23, 2010 11:24 AM | Link to this

Tax cuts for nearly every American will remain in place. Only the tax cuts for the wealthy will expire. Bush is the one who put an expiration limit on his own cuts. Folks can’t say that they’re worried about the deficit and then want Obama to extend a cut that will only further increase the deficit. As for economy stimulation: the folks who live paycheck to paycheck are the ones who spend and keep the economy running. The folks who have an excess of money, usually save it. They are not idiots starting or expanding businesses when they know that the average folks can’t afford to buy right now.

By PJM

August 23, 2010 11:24 AM | Link to this

Also, no one is targeting small businesses. There is something called an investment tax credit, which would give them a break if they actually create new jobs.

By TRS

August 23, 2010 11:22 AM | Link to this

I really hate to keep asking this but raising taxes on the top 1% or so in a best case scenario will garner about 150B over 3 years or 50B a year. Thats assuming these folks don’t shelter their money or do some income shifting which likely will happen and revenues will actually be less. Using this year’s debt of approx 1.4 Trillion we are left with 1.35 Trillion in debt. The combined wealth of the top 400 wealthiest in the country is 1.5 Trillion. That would lower the deficit from 14 to 13 Trillion. Then what? How are we to deal with the 5-7 Trillion in unfunded mandates lying in our future? Rather than seeking a pound of flesh from the rich which only makes some feel good when will we realize we are dealing with a spending problem? Even if the economy recovers, we are still dealing with a spending problem.

By PJM

August 23, 2010 11:20 AM | Link to this

Here is an outline of Obama’s tax policies; they are consistent with most of the comments here. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Stateofthe_Union/obama-2011-budget-tax-proposals-president-proposes-tax-cuts/story?id=9719942. The wealthiest Americans have been guilty of overreaching, and have brought negative attention to themselves.

By Mark

August 23, 2010 11:14 AM | Link to this

I can see that democrat class envy is alive and well. Raising taxes on the so-called “rich” will hurt small business and cost jobs. How else do you think a businessman will pay for higher taxes? They will cut jobs. That is the last thing we need right now.

By Acorn

August 23, 2010 10:50 AM | Link to this

Teabagging is a word showing action. Considered yourself teabagged,teabagging republican.

By deeplysaddenedneedsecnomiclessions

August 23, 2010 10:45 AM | Link to this

Tax cuts were for everyone and the top 1 % would have benefited more since they earn more.WOW not hard. Ever received a job from a poor person.

By deeplysaddenedneedsecnomiclessions

August 23, 2010 10:44 AM | Link to this

Tax cuts were for everyone and the top 1 % would have benefited more since they earn more.WOW not hard.

By Teabagging Republican

August 23, 2010 10:43 AM | Link to this

Of course we need tax cuts for the top 1%. How else are they going to trickle down on all of you?

By deeplysaddened

August 23, 2010 10:39 AM | Link to this

It’s sad to know, how clueless Ohio people are. The next poll should be, how many of you know that the Bush tax cuts were for the top 1%?

By Not a kool-aid drinker

August 23, 2010 10:34 AM | Link to this

Fox News and Wall Street Journal parent company News Corp donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association in June, Bloomberg BusinessWeek reported. The media conglomerate, controlled by Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, took advantage of the unlimited donations corporations can give to governors’ associations (from Bloomberg BusinessWeek): Big Democratic givers for the governors’ races include two Washington-based labor groups, the Service Employees International Union, which donated $1.1 million, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which contributed $3.3 million

By Czar

August 23, 2010 10:21 AM | Link to this

Newscorp, the owner of Fox News, donated $1 million to the republican party. Fox’s parent donated nothing to the democratic party. Sound like “fair and balanced” is just another right wing lie (like reducing deficits) and that Fox news is nothing more than the propaganda arm of the republican party. Obama inherited from Bush and the republicans who controlled government for 6 consecutive years two failed trillion dollar wars, and a ruined, looted economy. Now the right blames Obama for trying to fix the mess with government spending to stimulate the economy as he also holds the bag for paying for the trillion dollar Bush wars. Obama gets less than two years before he is prematurely judged by the right as a failed president. Bush had eight years and we KNOW that he was a failed president. The hypocrisy is so thick that you can cut it with a knife.

By brit

August 23, 2010 10:08 AM | Link to this

DEMONCRATS, UGGHH!!

By Jon

August 23, 2010 10:02 AM | Link to this

“Not an idiot” is a liar, at least where his nom-de-plume is concerned.

By Vic

August 23, 2010 9:59 AM | Link to this

Why the name calling? I’m a moron because I don’t agree with you?? I was not making any point about the wisdom of repealing or keeping the Bush tax cuts. I was making a point about the DDN using a conservative poll, Rasmussen, to make headlines that influence the opinion of others. And I do my own research that is how I know that Rasmussen is a conservative poll.

By Ron

August 23, 2010 9:59 AM | Link to this

I agree with Greatly Concerned. Our country now has an unprecedented debt which must be repaid. I believe the Bush tax reduction should stay in effect for those earning less than $250K and that it should be eliminated from those earning earning over the $250K. This is not a tax reduction for the wealthy, only putting them back in tax brackets they once were. I firmly believe in the “trickle up” effect, not vice versa. The more the middle class and lower have to spend the more money will go back into the economy, thus helping, not hendering the wealthy.

By Jon

August 23, 2010 9:58 AM | Link to this

My God, it is common knowledge that Rasmussen polls are rigged to favor Republican and conservative positions. Who would be surprised at this report?

By Not a kool-aid drinker

August 23, 2010 9:57 AM | Link to this

@Karon this the train karon.Taxes will rise anyway when you get your trains.They’ll need the tax money to fund it. Jim and Czar you’re both clowns.Beck use to be with cnn lets not forget and it’s not fox donating the money it’s the founder.Nothing more then a union,gerorge soros or teresa HEINZ carry.Stop drinking the kool-aid please.You are nothing more then mouth pieces for liberals loons.

By Truth Hurts

August 23, 2010 9:45 AM | Link to this

The Bush tax cuts don’t just offer tax relief to the wealthiest Americans. They offer it to just about anyone who pays federal income taxes. Their scheduled demise next year will raise the tax bill of nearly every taxpayer, unless Congress makes changes and the president jumps on board. Higher Tax Rates for All You may have been led to believe that only individuals in the top two brackets will face higher federal income taxes when the Bush cuts go bye-bye. Not true! Unless Congress takes action and President Obama goes along, rates will go up for everyone — not just a sliver of the wealthiest Americans. The current six rate brackets of 10%, 15%, 25%, 28%, 33% and 35% will be replaced by five new brackets with the higher rates of 15%, 28%, 31%, 36% and 39.6%. Just a few months ago, it seemed like a safe bet that Congress would make a fix to keep the existing 10%, 15%, 25% and 28% rate brackets to help out lower and middle-income folks. That bet is now looking iffy. http://finance.yahoo.com/taxes/article/110005/how-the-expiring-bush-tax-cuts-affect-you?mod=taxes-advice_strategy

By he is a jack puller

August 23, 2010 9:42 AM | Link to this

Let the taxes rise and the economy will fold. When that happens we can blame Bush. We will blame bush because the supreme leader Hussein will tell us to. Be a sheep and listen to the supreme leader.

By Not an idiot

August 23, 2010 9:30 AM | Link to this

Vic your a moron.Go do you own research so ddn doesn’t have to. Bush “tax cuts” were Clinton “roll backs”. The roll backs benifited everyone not just the rich as liberals love to spout.

By Not an idiot

August 23, 2010 9:29 AM | Link to this

Vic your a moron.Go do you own research so ddn doesn’t have to. Bush “tax cuts” were a Clinton “roll backs”. The roll backs benifited everyone not just the rich as liberals love to spout.

By Vic

August 23, 2010 9:02 AM | Link to this

Shame on the DDN for their continual use of the ultra-conservative Rasmussen poll to make political headlines. Stop this conservative bias reporting and use a poling service that is accepted by all!!!

By L Berry

August 23, 2010 9:01 AM | Link to this

Why can the liberal Democrats get away with eliminating foolish tax cuts on the rich? Because they have convienced the masses that a Socialist Government is good for them. But when Obama started his campaign he defined the rich as making over $250,000. Then it became $200,000 and now is further reduced. His new defination of rich is anyone that still has a job. So he will only tax the rich. But the true fact is that the top 5% of Americans, yes they are rich by anyones defination, pay 95% of the taxes. You can read here that the rich don’t really pay taxes..BS. Thats a liberal lie just like most of the Democratic comments on here. Thats the sheep restating the Party lies. Lets take a pool here. How many of the Bush bashers paid tax last year? Remember welfare payments, food stamps and free medical care are not taxed. Lets ask the same question again. Second question, did you get a huge tax return, even though you didn’t pay taxes because you have several kids? Thats called the earned income credit. Another word for it is more Welfare. Maybe the original laws in America for voting were good. You had to be a land owner and taxpayer to vote. Right now, with so many welfare voters, we could see even more stupid ideas about taxing the rich to level the wealth in America. But guess what, you tax the rich too much and they aren’t rich anymore. Then where would you get your welfare checks?

By Vic

August 23, 2010 9:00 AM | Link to this

Shame on the DDN for their continual use of the ultra-conservative Rasmussen poll to make political headlines. Stop this conservative bias reporting and use a poling service that is accepted by all!!!

By truth

August 23, 2010 8:54 AM | Link to this

fact…54% of americans do NOT pay taxes at the end of a year. 46% are carrying the weight. Until a flat tax is created it will never be fair.

By lucifer sam

August 23, 2010 8:53 AM | Link to this

The Center For Public Integrity has pointed out that Scott Rasmussen was a paid consultant for the 2004 George W. Bush campaign

By denny

August 23, 2010 8:47 AM | Link to this

That poll does not represent this Ohioan. End the Bush tax-cuts!

By L Berry

August 23, 2010 8:47 AM | Link to this

It is amasing how many non-tax payers feel so strongly about ending the tax relief for the rich. Why, because they see how the debt is pilling up by the tax and spend liberal democrats in power right now. Why shouldn’t the rich pay even more? Why can’t we take that extra money and introduce more bills to give every man, woman and child on welfare a nice house and a new Caddie? Why, in a land of opportunity do we have teh largest welfare state in teh world? Why, because the liberal Democrats want our great nation to become a Socialist Nation. Does Socialism work? No. Why, because in a true Socialist Nation everyone works and gets the same rewards. Those same lazy slackers, who have been welfare dependent for generations, would not work in Socialist Country either. They believe it’s their RIGHT to live for free and let the rich pay all the taxes. It’s their RIGHT to free medical care, It’s their RIGHT to a good home, all paid for by the rich. So why do these welfare families even get the RIGHT to vote? Because this is a free society and we fight to maintain the real RIGHTS of Americans as defined in the Constitution. But guess what? The Constitution does not include any of the welfare demands, woops I meant RIGHTS.

By Jim

August 23, 2010 8:37 AM | Link to this

Fox news has become nothing but a right wing Propaganda mouthpiece. Their coverage of the Mosque/Community Center in lower Manhattan is particularly disgusting, given that they whole heartily support a war sacrificing American lives to liberate…… that’s right…. Muslims.

By Bart

August 23, 2010 8:32 AM | Link to this

The rich got most of Bush’s tax cuts. Most of the people that took part in the survey were likely not aware of that. His tax cuts were a big reason for the budget deficits that Obama inherited and Bush ran up the biggest deficits in US history: only preceded by Ronnie Ray-Guns!!! Americans would rather believe the lie than the truth. They would like to blame Obama for the econimic mess this country is on when it was the Reflublicans who created it. If the Reflublicans were still in office, they would have bailed out the Banks too: there was no alternative. As for the tax cuts there is one: The rich should pay their share: the Ruling Class/Power Elite has a gotten a free ride for way too long. It is absolutely despotic to make the ever diminishing middle class bear the brunt of the tax burder while the rich play the stock market. Make the Plutocracy of the Reflublican Ruling class PAY UP!!!

By Czar

August 23, 2010 8:27 AM | Link to this

This may as well be the Fox News poll it is so skewed toward the preferred response. Moreover, Americans have become so ignorant that they don’t have a clue what is in their own best financial interests. They think that Beck and Hannity are their friends and that they “tell the truth.” What a sad and cruel joke. Beck and Hannity make millions off of these fools and Fox donates $1 million to the republican party. What a crock.

By Jeff

August 23, 2010 8:23 AM | Link to this

It’s obvious that an educated American is hard to come by. Going to college doesn’t mean your smart, it mearly means that you have completed 4 years of subjective reading that further inhibits your ability to inovate and figure things out for yourself.You idiots that actually believe the tax cuts are helping you are participating in the world wide view that America is filled with ethnocentric idiocy that bases facts off of falsity.

By hectare

August 23, 2010 8:18 AM | Link to this

Obama want to keep in place the tax cuts for those making less that $250k/yr., but allow to expire the cuts for those making over $250k.

By Laura

August 23, 2010 8:11 AM | Link to this

Personally, I want Congress to get rid of the tax cuts for the rich but keep in place the rest of the tax cuts.

By greatly concerned

August 23, 2010 7:21 AM | Link to this

Every economist on the planet knows that tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% gets the least bang for the buck of every other possible stimulus option. Trickle down economics has never worked throughout history. Anyone who tells you differently is yanking your uneducated chains. Extending the tax cuts to the rich will do one thing…make them richer. It will not create jobs.

By joe

August 23, 2010 7:16 AM | Link to this

Papagino you may well be wasting your time because they do not get the facts from our media watchdogs ( lapdogs ) and when confronted with the truth they would sooner believe a lie

By joe

August 23, 2010 6:58 AM | Link to this

The reason the states are in trouble is there is not enough rich people around for the governments, federal and local to spend it all , even if the government stole it all it wouldn’t be enough. Our national debt is almost equal to the entire economy of the U.S. If you took every penny out of everybodys bank account or retirement account it would not be enough. You could only do that once and then its gone.

By dale1

August 23, 2010 6:28 AM | Link to this

Anyone commenting that pays little to no federal taxes you need to mind your own business. Tax cuts help the economy period its a known fact. Eliminating the tax cuts will cause a second dip recession. The 401K is a very good idea to create presonal wealth. Pensions are no longer sustainable if you do not want any jobs left in the US. No business can afford to compete with the world market and pay people ridiculous pensions. If Obama was smart he would annouce he is keeping the tax cuts and the economy would begin to turn around.

By ohiodonkeydude

August 23, 2010 6:17 AM | Link to this

The Rassmussan Poll has been conservative right leaning since the day it started. It’s a subsidery of Fox News. Of course it’s going to reflect this stance. Secondly, has anyone ever received a call from one of these groups. They hang up when you disagree with their point of view. Secondly, I can’t understand how all these people and tea party clowns are crying about the budget and deficits and say yes to the Bush tax cuts blowing a 853 millon dollar hole in the budget? Does that make any sense to anyone???

By mike

August 23, 2010 5:47 AM | Link to this

whatever ur a idiot reagan started the 401k and that got big business out of offering pension plans.the people that will steal ur 401k are big republican businee like ENRON which the BUSHS were in bed with,how much retirement will people invest at $9 an hour.and if they privatize social security that will lead to the biggest theavery on WALL STREET!!!!!!!!!!

By Wake Up

August 23, 2010 5:34 AM | Link to this

As we are told all the time.The rich pay most of the taxes.Why then are most states and cities struggling for money ?Because the rich don’t.Average people do who are not without jobs and not paying taxes.

By Wake Up

August 23, 2010 5:28 AM | Link to this

If as we are all told all the time.The rich pay most of the taxes. why are all the states struggling for money ?Some even bamkrupt ?

By Ben Dover

August 23, 2010 4:15 AM | Link to this

families take a big hit after the tax cut expires. over the past years a family would get back $1000 per child (up to 3) now when they expire a family gets only $500. Who favors giving away $500 to the government? Not me

By ohiovotersareuneducated

August 23, 2010 3:07 AM | Link to this

Do the Ohio voters even know that the the Bush tax cuts were for the rich?

By hamburger halprin

August 23, 2010 2:51 AM | Link to this

Yeah, Bush and the neocon’s economic policies have been such a resounding success…like Reagan’s brilliant failed economic policies which started this nation on its current 30 year path of failure. Failures all. This poll speaks volumes about the ignorance of Ohio voters, who as we know voted twice for the chicken hawk warmongering team of Bush/Cheney. Dolts!

By frank speaker

August 23, 2010 2:35 AM | Link to this

@ JEROMY, Those tax cuts are for every American who pays taxes. You must get your info from CNN or MSNBC. Also, the promise that no American who makes less than $250K will get a tax hike has already been broken. Were you aware that the deduction that you used to get for the amount that you pay into your healthcare is now gone. In addition, the value of your health care plan (as retired military w/ family, mine is valued at $47k) is now considered taxable income. At the end of 2011 it will become clear that this and many other measures were mistakes and if you repeal the entire bush tax cut package, everyone takes a hit. Especially small business.

By Ed Borden

August 23, 2010 2:29 AM | Link to this

The “bush tax cuts” (tax cuts that bush signed for, but OUR congress voted in) are tax cuts for everyone, up and down the line. The Left Wing Media likes to call them “tax cuts for the rich” because they result in more dollars of a tax cut for the rich. Of course they result in more dollars of a tax cut. THEY MAKE MORE DOLLARS. The tax cuts give a larger percentage of tax cuts to the poor. To eliminate these “bush” tax cuts is to punish small business which will result in a loss of jobs. HELLO!!! This is simple economics!!!

By Z.Roe.Compassion

August 23, 2010 2:24 AM | Link to this

You know wealthcare is the issue of our time. We billionaires would like to personally thank all the support in making sure our pockets are overflowing. . Don’t let the socialists call you suckers, you deserve to be praised for being so patriotic. Keeping our profits healthy will require some sacrifice. Not on our part, of course.

By karon

August 23, 2010 12:27 AM | Link to this

These tax cuts for the rich HAVE NOT CREATED jobs!

By Jeromy

August 23, 2010 12:17 AM | Link to this

Rasmussen is a VERY conservative polling organization. Take a look at their polls and you’ll see that the Rasmussen polls all just so happen to reflect the views of the G.O.P. and social conservatives. I don’t trust telephone polls anymore because they tend to call land lines. Who but the angriest and most misinformed of all Americans has a landline anymore ???

By Jeromy

August 23, 2010 12:14 AM | Link to this

IRONY: most Ohioans are demographically lower middle class (or just broke) so the Bush tax cuts don’t apply to them. Ditto for the “Death Tax” that only affected 2%-5% of all Americans. Trickle down economics? It’s been a proven myth since at least the early 90’s.

By Greg

August 23, 2010 12:03 AM | Link to this

I am in the market for a new car. My payment will be just over $300/month. The tax cut expiration will cost me $330/month in extra taxes. I’m waiting to purchase until the government decides what they are going to do with my money.

By advocate1

August 22, 2010 11:00 PM | Link to this

The Center For Public Integrity has pointed out that Scott Rasmussen was a paid consultant for the 2004 George W. Bush campaign.

By Mike

August 22, 2010 10:57 PM | Link to this

How can any of you use the excuse that “these tax cuts are not paid for”? It belongs to the person that earned, not the damned government. I make about 60k a year, and I remember having more in my paycheck when these tax cuts were implemented. I want to keep MY money, how about you?

By Great in Dayton

August 22, 2010 10:30 PM | Link to this

I think they should tax personal income over 250,000/yr. They should not tax a business more at all. If your a small business owner and making 250k/yr or less and you can’t figure out how to get out of paying more in taxes you need a new accountant.

By sam p.

August 22, 2010 10:21 PM | Link to this

I make 60-70000 a year dependent on sales. The tax cuts of bush provide an extra 100 dollars a week. Where are you getting this 250,000 benchmark?

By rescott

August 22, 2010 10:19 PM | Link to this

In response to Scott: If the rich spend it on themselves (new cars, houses, etc.) Who is making the houses, cars, etc…? are they not creating jobs?

By Bigjack

August 22, 2010 9:59 PM | Link to this

Of course we want to keep our own money. The top marginal rate is still too high even with the “Bush Cuts.” BTW- the tax cuts don’t need to be “paid for” the budget needs to be cut.

By Mr. Rich Man

August 22, 2010 9:53 PM | Link to this

haha SUCKERS!!! They only affect those that make OVER 250,000.00 a year. Thanks for your support, poor white trash - we at the Country Club LOVE YOU!!

By paul

August 22, 2010 9:52 PM | Link to this

We need to Extend the tax cuts, or, we will ALL pay higher taxes. Even those making under $100,000 will pay thousands more in taxes per year if we don’t extend the Bush tax cuts… it affects Everyone, not just the rich.

By tiredofit!

August 22, 2010 9:36 PM | Link to this

the republicans only care about rich folks so this poll must have been taken fron only rich folks.the bush tax cuts will not be kept.

By Mustellus

August 22, 2010 9:29 PM | Link to this

“From those to whom much has been given… much will be required.”… See, Jesus says SOAK THE RICH !!!!! “Its easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter heaven”.. Jesus…

By rocktanline

August 22, 2010 9:13 PM | Link to this

all educated Ohioans leave the state, so your only left with ignorant followers.

By Papagino

August 22, 2010 9:10 PM | Link to this

Trickle down 101 - A man earns 10 million dollars - pays 48% to various entities in taxes - Still has 5.2 million - Buys a new house worth 1 million - Contractor makes 250K and employs 15 people who make 35K, contractor taxes equal 25% or 62500. Each employe pays about 3500 in taxes or 52500 total. Those employees and the contractor buy new cars, furniture and groceries, other people have jobs. More tax revenue is collected. If taxes on the ten million were 60 or 70 percent, less money would be available to the contractor, his employees and the people who make the goods they buy. Is that simple enough to understand?

By Papagino

August 22, 2010 8:53 PM | Link to this

TO say that the rich will just spend the money they save on taxes flies in the argument that the tax cuts don;t provide jobs. Of the rich buy new houses and cars, who makes them? People who got a job. And to answer the Deficit issue - A deficit results from SPENDING MORE THAN YOU HAVE. So the problem is? Oh, heck, I’m wasting my time, liberals don’t want to listen to logic, facts just get in the way.

By Commonsense

August 22, 2010 8:38 PM | Link to this

Wow, Ohio is home to more ignorant poeple than the national average..surprise, surprise. These tax cuts have not been paid for and have added to the national debt along with the unpaid for wars and Ohio still wants to keep them. How have these tax cuts been going for you so far Ohio, how many jobs have been created since Bush and his croonies lined the pockets of the rich? The last time I checked Ohio still is Ohio, the laughing stock of the nation. All the tax cuts expiring would do is take them back to the same tax rate as when Clinton was in office, you now, the peroid when over 20 million jobs were created. Ohio is a wasteland of its former self…what a joke of a state.

By Scott

August 22, 2010 8:17 PM | Link to this

Its absurd to think that lower taxes on the wealthy will lead to more jobs. While some may invest that money on their business, most will invest it on themselves…new cars, houses, etc. And I don’t have a problem with that, but lets not pretend that small business owners crave lower taxes simply so they can expand their businesses. Thats just naive.

By rocktanline

August 22, 2010 8:05 PM | Link to this

It would be nice to know how the poll question was worded. The poll question would be completely biased if it was worded with “Bush Tax Cuts”.

By Jan

August 22, 2010 7:47 PM | Link to this

It is a joke to think that $250K is wealthy. Many small businesses may make that much, but if they are taxed more, won’t expand business, hire new workers, put money into new equipment, etc.

By iker

August 22, 2010 7:36 PM | Link to this

Wow!There must be a lot people in that survey that make $250,000 or more, that want the Bush tax cuts extended.Hmmm,amazing!

By whatever

August 22, 2010 7:31 PM | Link to this

OF COURSE WE WANT TO KEEP OUR MONEY, WE NEED MORE OF OUR MONEY AND LESS TAXES. REMEMBER THE DEFINITION OF RICH FOR A DEMOCRAT, ANYONE WHO HAS A JOB. THEY WILL CONTINUE TO TAKE MORE AND MORE OF OUR MONEY. THE DEMOCRATS ARE LOOKING AT OUR 401K AND PENSIONS, BEWARE.