CNN Poll: Should Bush Tax Cuts Be Allowed To Expire in 2013?

[stopbush]

Should President Bush's tax cuts for families making over $250,000 a year be allowed to expire in 2013 as part of a debt-reduction deal?

Yes is currently at almost 80%.

Vote here: http://www.cnn.com/

[gkhouston]

1. How about right fucking now? n/t

[ArnoldLayne]

2. Yes I agree right now.

[FreakinDJ]

9. No Shit Sherlock - sooner the better

[Sherman A1]

16. Precisely

However, yesterday would be better.

[plumbob]

3. Yes, now!

And can we throw in an old fashioned buttkicking for those who want to keep them?


Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease?

[jannyk]

4. Why wait?....

[Tx4obama]

5. I thought they are supposed to expire in 2012? Is that a trick question? n/t

[JDPriestly]

7. Maybe a change in the law in 2012 would come

into force in 2013. The cuts have been extended for a certain amount of time.

Another Obama double-cross.

Doesn't he know that he has a veto?

[Tx4obama]

8. Article dated December 17, 2010 says Obama signed 2 year extension.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20026069-503544.html

p.s. So, it seems they should be expiring January 1, 2013.

[JDPriestly]

12. Right. So that is why the 2013 date is given.

[Tx4obama]

14. I guess what tripped me up was the question ...

Because I don't understand why they would need to be 'part of a debt-reduction deal'.
They will expire on their own January 1, 2013 and don't need to be included in any deal.

I thought that question, even thought it didn't say it, was like more like: instead of them expiring 'in 2012' should they be included in the deal to expire 'in 2013' (like the end of 2013) instead.

See?

Anyway, now I get it :)

[JDPriestly]

17. Yes. I don't understand why Obama is trying to get so many

issues decided now with the Republicans in charge in the House -- unless he wants to have the campaign issues for 2012 very clearly outlined in the minds of voters.

If so, he is making a big mistake with his "compromise" on Social Security and Medicare. He is on the wrong side of most Americans, even average Republicans, on those issues. He won't get a lot of independent votes based on his stances in that area.

[CleanGreenFuture]

19. Wow, I was under the impression that the publicized period was 13 months. Where

in the world did I get that idea?

[JDPriestly]

6. It is now at 78%.

[gateley]

10. Still at 78%. Love how it's worded: "Should.....on FAMILIES making over..."

:grr:

[21st Century FDR]

13. Yes, "families"

You know, like the Koch family, the Rockefellers, the Bush (Crime) Family, and the Waltons (the Arkansas bunch, not John-Boy & Mary Ellen)

[stopbush]

18. If their intention was to skew the poll towards "no," it didn't work. eom

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[libmom74]

15. They should have expired in 2010

if Obama hadn't caved then we would not be in this situation now with the "necessity" for even more "shared sacrafice", the kind where 98% of us sacrafice necessities and the wealthiest 2% get to keep their extra tax breaks and loopholes for yachts and corporate jets.

[KelleyKramer]

20. Bush tax cuts? There are no Bush tax cuts...

I think they mean the Obama tax cuts for the rich.

[donheld]

21. Anybody not voting YES is a fool

[proud patriot]

22. voted