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Poll: All Should Pay Some Taxes

Mike

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A large majority of likely voters believes all Americans should pay some federal income tax -- even if it is as little as one percent of what they make.
Seventy-nine percent say everyone should pay something, according to a Fox News poll released Thursday. That includes 85 percent of Republicans, 83 percent of independents and 71 percent of Democrats.
According to the IRS, last year approximately 41 percent of tax filers did not pay federal income tax. The Tax Policy Center estimates that will increase to 46 percent this year.
Most voters (73 percent) are at least somewhat familiar with the widely-broadcast videotape of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney talking about “47 percent of Americans” and the number of people paying no federal income tax. Romney also talks about his concern that the country is becoming an entitlement society and that many are too dependent on government. Journalists and pundits speculated the tape would damage Romney’s campaign. Yet a 63-percent majority thinks the substance of Romney’s comment about dependence on government is mostly (36 percent) or somewhat true (27 percent).
Three out of four voters believes the “average American” is at least somewhat dependent on government (76 percent), while less than a third says they personally are (31 percent).
The poll also shows nearly half of voters -- 46 percent -- think the federal government is “trying to do too much” these days. That’s more than twice as many as say it’s doing “too little” (22 percent). Just over a quarter says the government is doing “about the right amount” (28 percent).
Voters are sharply divided over which candidate they trust to do a better job managing their tax dollars: 46 percent say Romney, while 45 percent say Barack Obama.
The Fox News poll is based on live telephone interviews on landlines and cell phones from September 24 to September 26 among 1,092 randomly-chosen likely voters nationwide. Likely voters are registered voters who are considered most likely to vote in the November presidential election. The poll is conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R). For the total sample, it has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points. The poll is weighted by age and race; it is not weighted by party identification.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/27/fox-news-poll-7-percent-say-all-americans-should-pay-income-taxes/#ixzz27nzRNwLG
 

Steve

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I would like to see a 1% flat tax based on a balanced budget.. applied to paydown the debt..

if the president and congress approve a fully funded budget..

the tax is 1%

if they only fund half the budget... 2% and so on.

it would expose the politicians who leave a huge deficit..

.. call it a balanced budget tax... everyone pays.. even those on welfare.. along side those who make billions..
 

Tam

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How many times have we heard Obama claim everyone needs to have some skin in the game? BUT do you ever heard him say those that are COLLECTING checks from the Government also need to pay their fair share?

NOPE it is always the Rich that need to pay more and more and more so he can buy votes from those living off the endless supply of Government entitlement program money.
 

lonewolvie

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The poll is garbage and no new tax will never fix the budget problems of government. Taxes have never balanced the federal budget, give them more money and the debt gets bigger. It would stand to reason that by lowering or removing taxes, the debt would go down.
 
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Anonymous

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Bootheel said:
How did the country operate for the first 140 years without income tax?

40% of the income was off the tax on booze- the majority of the rest was made off tariff's, duties and import taxes...
 

Tam

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Oldtimer said:
Bootheel said:
How did the country operate for the first 140 years without income tax?

40% of the income was off the tax on booze- the majority of the rest was made off tariff's, duties and import taxes...

WOW I can see why Oldtimer wouldn't want to go back to that tax system. :shock: :wink: :lol:
 
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