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AP poll: Public seems willing to wait on tax cuts
2008-11-13
Didn't take long, did it ...
WASHINGTON -- People want the tax cuts promised during the presidential campaign, but may be willing to wait while President-elect Obama takes on the larger issue of fixing the economy. Eighty percent say trimming personal tax rates should be a goal when the new president takes office in January, but only 36 percent say the cuts should a very top priority, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. That was less than half the 84 percent who cited improving the economy as a No. 1 goal, and the 80 percent who said creating jobs should be a paramount task.

Obama promised to cut taxes for working families during the campaign.

Even fewer people -- 29 percent -- said another top priority should be Obama's plan to allow tax cuts to expire for families earning more than $250,000 a year. He has said he would use the revenue that would raise to help finance some of his priorities.
Posted by:Steve White

#12  Bet it was primarily taken among the 58% of Pennsylvania rocket scientists who voted for Murtha after he called them racist rednecks.
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie   2008-11-13 23:21  

#11  -No new government programs such as that stupidly expensive indentured servitude plan.
-No more bailouts. Period.
-Audit of the current bailout money.
-Drill, gotta set up a program to train wildcatters ok they will be working.
-Trim the pork.

Do that to pay off this crazy large debt and I'll high-five personally.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2008-11-13 17:51  

#10  I'm not an old guy, but I'm old enough to know that the middle class will never get out from under the tax load that we carry. The rich class is just too slippery and they have too many resources to keep from paying many taxes no matter what the law says. You can't tax the rich, they'll weasel out of it, you cant tax the poor, they got no money, so that leaves the good ol' middle class.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2008-11-13 14:30  

#9  Till Monday?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2008-11-13 10:24  

#8  or more likely, the AP, in the spirit of modern journalism, just made the whole thing up to represent what they thought people should be thinking. Anyone who believes anything they read in the press anymore is a fool.
Posted by: RWV   2008-11-13 10:18  

#7  This poll was taken among Obama staffers only.
Posted by: RWV   2008-11-13 10:17  

#6  Still waiting for the Clinton middle class tax cut.............
Posted by: no mo uro   2008-11-13 05:56  

#5  Obama has called for about $175 billion in new stimulus spending, including for public works projects

Joe the Plumber translation: Tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of political patronage jobs at the national level using the Chicago machine model.
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-11-13 05:15  

#4  spread the blame is why he wants Repubs.
Posted by: OldSpook   2008-11-13 04:02  

#3  This guy is going to create some kind of New New Deal and ita going to be a disaster. I hope the trunks are ready for a fight.
Posted by: Mike N.   2008-11-13 01:01  

#2  More like Hagel and Schwarzenegger.
Posted by: Pappy   2008-11-13 00:35  

#1  Nearly three-quarters -- including most Democrats -- said they'd like Obama to name some Republicans in his Cabinet, as the Democrat has said he would do.

For some reason -- can't put my finger on it -- Republicans like John Bolton, Donald Rumsfeld or Dick Cheney wouldn't be their first picks for cabinet positions.
Posted by: badanov   2008-11-13 00:31  

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