Despite Obama's claims to the contrary in his class warfare speeches, the latest poll conducted by McClatchy-Marist, finds 52 percent of registered voters want all Bush-era tax cuts extended, including those for Americans making over $250,000.
Via McClatchy:
A majority of Americans want the Bush tax cuts extended for everyone, despite a strong push by President Barack Obama to eliminate them on higher incomes, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.
The poll found 52 percent of registered voters saying they want all the tax cuts extended, including the tax cuts for incomes above $250,000, while 43 percent want the cuts extended just for incomes below that threshold.
All of the tax cuts first enacted under President George W. Bush are scheduled to expire on Dec. 31. Republicans want to extend them all. Obama wants to continue only those on income below $250,000 annually, and he vows to veto any move by Congress that would continue the higher-end tax cuts.
“The money we’re spending on these tax cuts for the wealthy is a major driver of our deficit," he said last week as he worked to make it a major issue in his re-election campaign.
Yet some of the strongest support for extending all of the tax cuts came from some of Obama’s most reliable supporters, such as young voters, minorities and the poor and working class.
Young voters ages 18-29 favored tax cuts for everyone by a margin of 69-29, the largest margin of any age group.
Latinos favored tax cuts for all incomes by 62 percent to 36 percent. Whites supported tax cuts for every income by 50 percent to 44 percent. African-Americans split, 48 percent for limiting the tax cuts to incomes below $250,000 and 47 percent for extending them to all incomes.
And those making less than $50,000 supported tax cuts for all incomes by 53 percent to 41 percent.
Emphasis on "The money we're spending on these tax cuts" is one of the biggest lies Obama tells to voters on a regular basis.
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Spend: 1. - to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.)
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Tax: 1.- a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc.
The two are not the same thing no matter how many times Obama attempts to lie and claim they are.
Referred to as "The Invincible Lie."
Let us begin with the word "spend." Is the government "spending" money on people whenever it does not tax them as much as it can? Such convoluted reasoning would never pass muster if the mainstream media were not so determined to see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil when it comes to Barack Obama.
Perhaps someone should supply Obama with a dictionary, it is obvious he needs one.