Toro
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- Sep 29, 2005
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To see the polls, click the link.It appears that Republicans have walked away from a historic opportunity to reduce the deficit because of their obsessive insistance that not one penny come from higher revenues. Recent polls, however, suggest that the American people are not so obstinate and are more than willing to accept some increase in taxes to reduce the deficit. There is a high degree of consistency in every poll I could find on this topic. ...
People Support Higher Taxes to Reduce the Deficit by a 2-to-1 Margin | Capital Gains and Games
And from Quinnipiac
National (US) Poll * July 14, 2011 * President Is Best Of The Worst - Quinnipiac University Hamden, ConnecticutVoters will blame Republicans over Obama 48 - 34 percent if the debt limit is not raised;
When did you start posting blatantly partisan links?
Those polls show that people are willing to accept higher taxes as a part of reducing the deficit. They also show that people want that deficit reduction to be mostly about cutting spending, and that only 20% or so actually support using only taxes to reduce the deficit. Why does your site fail to mention any of that?
Wait a sec. Did I miss something? Have I been following this wrongly? Have the MSM totally screwed the pooch? Have the House Republicans saying that they would be willing to increase taxes all along?
Because the answer to your question is this isn't about "mostly." It's about "all." The House Republicans want it all to be about spending cuts. Not "mostly."
So, yeah, there's a partisan problem alright, just not at that the site, given that the post was written by a Republican economist who served in the Reagan administration.