Americans agree 2-1: Let the Bush tax cuts for the über-rich expire

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Joan McCarter at Daily Kos reports on the latest CNN/Opinion Research Poll:

The latest CNN/Opinion Research poll shows that 69% of Americans support ending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy–they like the idea of higher taxes for people earning more than $250,000 a year. Go figure.

Media Matter's Political Correction puts that in easy to interpret visuals:

What's more, only 50% of Republicans and self-identified conservatives support keeping them. So it's the American people versus the National Association of Wholesaler- Distributors and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Wal-Mart, Lockheed Martin and Republicans in Congress. And Ben Nelson.

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Extending all of the Bush tax cuts permanently, as the Republicans want to do, “would be a disaster for the deficit, it would be a disaster for the debt, it would be a disaster for the economy,” [Sen. Kent] Conrad said. Furthermore, if it meant stopping the high-end tax cuts now in order to get the tax cuts for the middle class extended, Conrad said he would do that, and join his party.

He needs to work on Nelson and the Maine Twins.