Majority of Americans Favor Raising Taxes for those Making over $250,000 a Year.

[MadBadger]

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/taxes/51_say_tax_hike_on_those_earning_over_250_000_is_a_good_move

51% support to 31% who dont.

[truebrit71]

1. And yet the piggies on CNBC have been squealing all day long...

...effin hypocrites that they are...

[MadBadger]

3. I can only imagine what Fox Business is saying. They make CNBC look like the DNC

[Xenotime]

2. There should be a national salary cap. That would fix this entire mess.

[MadBadger]

4. How would that work?

[Xenotime]

8. I think you could set something for CEO's based on performance

and then work the way down the corporate ladder. It would remove jealousy in the workplace.

They already do it in professional sports and it seems to work quite well.

[jmg257]

29. Ahh - so have a cap for an entire corporation? (like a baseball team?). Hmm..

I wonder who will do well, and who will get the leavings?

[hendo]

5. 250k says that the 51% favoring tax raises makes under 250k

just saying.

thats the same as asking men what they think of women's issues, or Sarah Palin what she thinks of gay rights.

[Vincardog]

10. How is it the same? Don't people making under 250K pay taxes? Or is it that only rich people's

opinions count?

[hendo]

12. I'm saying its always

far easier to raise someone else's taxes than your own. Now, if they asked everyone if they wanted the taxes in thier income bracket raised then they might have only gotten 5% to say they wanted tax raises.

Everyone wants thier own taxes cut and another person's taxes to be higher.

In the words of Cullen Hightower, "There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else."

So, I have a question for you, name someone who makes over 250k a year that wants to be taxed more? Other than Warren Buffet that is.

[Vincardog]

I believe Al Gore said he could afford more taxes. Why does it matter if they want to be taxed more?...

The rich have seen their income double in the last 8 years and their taxes decrease.
Why shouldn't they pay their fair share?

[hendo]

19. The rich have the ability to transfer funds out of the country.

The more we try to tax them the more loopholes they will find. Heck, we can't even trust our own congressmen to pay thier fair share of taxes.

James C. Green - Convicted of tax evasion 1997

Frederick Richmond - Charged with tax evasion in 1978

etc.. the list goes on and on until the most recent two: Tom Daschle and Nancy Killefer.

If we can't trust the wealthy in our own party to pay more taxes what makes you think the rich who do not agree with our sense of social justice will actually pay?

[Vincardog]

22. If they want to be criminals, let them. Citizens are supposed to avoid all the taxes they can

legally avoid. Why do you assume the rich do not agree with our sense of social justice?
Project much?

[hendo]

23. i never said all rich, don't put words in my mouth

Yet you somehow think that everyone will pay as much in taxes as the government says. There are plenty of legal ways to hide income, and plenty of legal loopholes that the rich have access to.

We need to play it smart. Take too much from them and the revenue source will just go somewhere else.

[Vincardog]

33. IF we raise the taxes on their income above $250,000 by 3% the rich will leave?

Are you serious?

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Where are they going to go? France?

[WyLoochka]

30. Bill Gates, Bill Clinton

Barack Obama, John Edwards, John Kerry have all said they should be taxed at a higher rate.

[dysfunctional press]

11. i don't think that warren buffet or bill gates make under 250K- but i could be mistaken.

[hendo]

24. Warren Buffet is one fo the few who would gladly pay more taxes.

Please see my later post in this thread.

[ThomWV]

6. and its not like there will be a zillion percent jump right at $250k, thats where it starts

There won't be a giant jump in tax rates right at $250K, its just that the tax increases (reductions of deductions is what I've been told they will actually be) will begin at that point. So the guy at $255,000 isn't going to see that next five grand taxed out of existance, it will just be taxed at a somewhat higher rate than the preceeding quarter of a million dollars in (after deduction) earnings.

[Ocracoker16]

17. it will be an increase to 39.6% from 36%

[SmileyRose]

31. only on the portion over $250 grand, not the whole sheebang

for those not familiar with our marginal system, this link explains to perfectly.

http://www.moneychimp.com/features/tax_brackets.htm

[leftstreet]

7. ...until THEY'RE making over $250,000 a year

All this does is show a strong percentage of people making less than $250k

[ohgooglemebaby]

9. I wish it could be for those making over $95,000...

I think even a combined income of around 100 grand is enough for a very pleasant life; even with kids.

[dysfunctional press]

13. you'd be mistaken.

at least in most major metro areas and their suburbs around the country.

[jmg257]

26. Not likely. Make too much, you are OK, make too little, you qualify for help

make "almost enough", and you get screwed big time.

2 people making $95K with kids et. al. ain't guaranteeing anyone "very pleasant lives".

[bdamomma]

14. hell yes, they should be.

I favor raising the taxes for those making $250,000.

[dkofos]

15. If 95% of Americans make less than $250K why is it only 51% favor

higher taxes. Could rasmussen not juggle the numbers enough or
are Americans just plain stupid.

[MadBadger]

18. The Latter.

Im sure some of the former too though.

You also have to understand that most Americans dont undrestand the economy.

I for one get really confused, but i do at least know that tax cuts dont help when you need to stimulate the economy.

[SmileyRose]

32. they are convinced their employer will have to fire them.

The news media is doing a very poor job (surprise surprise) of explaining that only about 1 in 10,000 small businesses report income as individuals and even of those only a very small percentage make over $250 grand. Nearly ALL small businesses pay under the corporate tax structure and this plan has absolutely NOTHING to do with corporate taxes, only INDIVIDUAL FEDERAL INCOME TAXES.

[Skidmore]

21. Those people in the 31% who make less than $250K/yr. always

vote with the belief that they will win the lottery and be rich some day. Not that they will earn that amount through work, but that they just might pick the right numbers at the convenience mart on the way home some Friday night.

[Johonny]

34. many people don't understand the tax system

and assume it is impossible to raise taxes on those over 250 K without raising everyones taxes. Other feel raising taxes are a slippery slope and if they allow any tax increase then congress will go all tax crazy.

[KamaAina]

16. CLASS WARFARE! CLASS WARFARE!!

I assume that's all you're hearing already on Fux, with the others soon to follow... :eyes:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

20. And yet all the analysts are freaking out over this...

:shrug:

[SoCalDem]

25. There's that "dirty-thirty" again..

:rofl:

[FrenchieCat]

27. If Ras polls those in favor at 51%, that means that it is really at 57% support.

Here's their poll for the GE, the day before the vote:

Final Fox News/Rasmussen polling in five other key battleground states – Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Ohio and Virginia – also will be released today. McCain has an identical one-point lead in Florida but lags behind in Colorado and Virginia. The race is tied in Missouri and Ohio.

Here's the comparison with their poll and the actual numbers state by state.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/final_rasmussen_poll_results_presidential_election

[marshall]

28. I support putting a K250 cap on salaries

Or at least putting a cap somewhere--greater economic minds than mind can decide where exactly the ceiling should be.

[Fleshdancer]

35. If I made more than $250K, I would still be for it

If this is the ultimate price to pay to be wealthy in one of the most wealthiest nations in the world, then so be it. Why not give back to the country that made this possible?

It isn't punishment, it's patriotism.