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<blockquote data-quote="The Other Side" data-source="post: 883813" data-attributes="member: 17969">Popular with who??&nbsp; The Tea Party crowd?America disagrees with you <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/04/18/112386/poll-best-way-to-fight-deficits.html" target="_blank">http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/04/18/112386/poll-best-way-to-fight-deficits.html</a><img src="http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/6685/marist_mcclatcy4_19_11taxes.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/6685/marist_mcclatchy4_19_11mm.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />WASHINGTON — Alarmed by rising national debt and increasingly downbeat about their country&#039;s course, Americans are clear about how they want to attack the government&#039;s runway budget deficits: raise taxes on the wealthy and keep hands off of Medicare and Medicaid....On tackling the deficit, voters by a margin of 2-to-1 support raising taxes on incomes above $250,000, with 64 percent in favor and 33 percent opposed.Independents supported higher taxes on the wealthy by 63-34 percent; Democrats by 83-15 percent; and Republicans opposed by 43-54 percent....Voters oppose cuts to [Medicare and Medicaid] by 80-18 percent. Even among conservatives, only 29 percent supported cuts, and 68 percent opposed them.I guess the &quot;minority&quot; of people in america side with you, and I think I know who those 8 people are.Peace.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Other Side, post: 883813, member: 17969"] Popular with who?? The Tea Party crowd? America disagrees with you [URL]http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/04/18/112386/poll-best-way-to-fight-deficits.html[/URL] [IMG]http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/6685/marist_mcclatcy4_19_11taxes.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/6685/marist_mcclatchy4_19_11mm.jpg[/IMG] WASHINGTON — Alarmed by rising national debt and increasingly downbeat about their country's course, Americans are clear about how they want to attack the government's runway budget deficits: raise taxes on the wealthy and keep hands off of Medicare and Medicaid....On tackling the deficit, voters by a margin of 2-to-1 support raising taxes on incomes above $250,000, with 64 percent in favor and 33 percent opposed. Independents supported higher taxes on the wealthy by 63-34 percent; Democrats by 83-15 percent; and Republicans opposed by 43-54 percent.... Voters oppose cuts to [Medicare and Medicaid] by 80-18 percent. Even among conservatives, only 29 percent supported cuts, and 68 percent opposed them. I guess the "minority" of people in america side with you, and I think I know who those 8 people are. Peace. [/QUOTE]

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