Poll: Republicans Prefer Having A Deficit With Tax Cuts, Over A Balanced Budget And Higher Taxes

I favor balancing the budget by raising everyone's taxes but mine. I also want a magic pony.

Wrong choices on the question. It should be

Do you favor tax cuts even with a deficit, or tax hikes with a deficit?
That is what Republicans actually hear in that poll question.
T
he house isn't agonizing over a $1.9 trillion debt ceiling raise for nothing. And even that will only get them through the November elections.

For many decades all the Repubs whined about was deficits! Then, when Clinton brought us a budget surplus, they shut up. And they said nothing about it while Shrub destroyed the surplus. They are the definition of hypocrites.

But, but, but, the new budget proposed by the R's calls for more tax cuts for the wealthy, more business deregulation, putting an end to medicare and SS (forcing seniors to buy high priced insurance, they can afford less than the rest of us, in the private market) and a balanced budget...by 2060. If we implement the R's vision we will become a Banana Republic in no time flat.

I was a respondent for this survey, and I certainly felt that the headline question was skewed to obtain a specific result. As a supporter of President Obama's stimulus, I was surprised that there was no option for choosing investment in jobs over closing the deficit.

If I were a Tea Party activist, I would have wanted an option for closing the deficit without new taxes. Yes, it's unrealistic to propose closing the deficit without new taxes. But they don't know that, and the point of a survey is to find out what your respondents really think, not to force-feed them precooked options.

Really, it was a very suspicious survey. Don't draw too many conclusions from it.

THIS is what we had in '06 when Republicans held both houses of congress and the WH, and dim-0s were running for control of congress promising "CHANGE." How're yall liking the "CHANGE?"

2006 unemployment #s
4.7...jan.
4.8...feb.
4.7...march
4.7...april
4.7...may
4.6...june
4.7...july
4.7...aug.
4.5...sep.
4.4...oct.
4.5...nov.
4.4...dec.

http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?data_tool=latest_numbers&series_id=LNS14000000

When Republicans had both houses and the WH.........................http://www.icmarc.org/xp/rc/marketview/ ... oduct.html

The 1st quarter of '06 saw 4.8% growth in GDP. Then came dimos running for control of congress promising "CHANGE." They won, and after 2 years in power, things HAVE "CHANGED" GDP growth dropped to –6%. Happy with your "CHANGE?"

Thus as we all suspected, "deficits" was just a cheap political gimmick by the people who ran up defificts themselves with unfunded wars and tax cuts for the rich.

GOP: "Country Last, Me First"

These deficits will be paid for by our grandchildren. More money for us now, more debt for the grandkids.

So the question becomes:

Why do Republicans hate their grandchildren???

And until Republican opinion flips the other way, they're not fit to govern the country. The basic duty of a center-right party in a democracy is to be conservative, and this is the absolute antithesis of conservatism.

Deciding whether to have a deficit with tax cuts, or a balanced budget with tax increases is like taking the Kobayashi Maru test. (For all you Star Trek fans out there). It's a no-win situation. Neither answer results in successfully dealing with a situation where you have to both stimulate the economy and manage a huge national debt. The only way to effectively deal with the situation is to find a different alternative. (As Captain Kirk did).

If you look at what the Obama administration is doing, it is indeed a different alternative. They are saying that neither across the board tax increases or across the board tax decreases are good. Instead, we need to look at targeted tax changes. Specifically:
1. Middle class tax decreases to stimulate the economy. Basically, through tax cuts, give people in the middle class more "disposable income" to stimulate the economy and create job.
2. Upper class tax increases to increase tax revenues and help to control the deficit. And, he's talking about an upper class tax increase that would just take the wealthy back to the tax level that they had under the Reagan administration. (Note: An underlying premise here that the wealthy currently have enough "disposable income" that giving them a tax increase does not reduce their spending in any substantial manner).

This combination may, indeed, be our best current alternative. The fact that the Rasmussen Poll doesn't include this, leads me to believe that they are not paying attention. Their poll is so Last Generation.

Wait a minute! If Republicans actually prefer having a deficit with tax cuts, then why did they all become deficit hawks a few microseconds after Obama was elected?

And why are they trying to blame Obama for the current deficit rather than taking credit for it??

We prefer to say, "borrow and spend", thank you very much. :)

Pretty amazing when you actualyl take a minute to think about it.

jess
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