Deficit-cutting ideas not popular

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AP-CNBC Poll

Forty-seven percent said the deficit should be reduced with spending cuts even if new education, health and energy programs were eliminated, but 46 percent said those programs should grow even if the red ink expands.

Sounds like pretty much a 50-50 split, doesn't it?

Just 34 percent want to renew tax cuts for everyone; 50 percent prefer extending the reductions only for those earning under $250,000 a year and 14 percent want to end them for all.

Only 14% want to extend tax cuts for everyone. Isn't that what the new Republican house wants to do?

Democrats around the country split about evenly over whether a budget-balancing effort should focus on tax increases or spending cuts

Tax and spend Democrats are evenly split over tax increases? That should cast some doubt on stereotypes.

How do the Republicans feel about tax increases vs spending cuts?

In a separate question measuring peoples' expectations, Republicans were roughly evenly divided over whether deficits can be erased without tax increases, despite GOP leaders' insistent opposition to higher taxes.

Isn't that about the same split seen among the Democrats, and among the public at large?

 

[Rick]

The popular enthusiasm for a government policy of plundering rich people comes from decades of leftwing brainwashing plus economic ignorance.