Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
On the same day that the top campaign advisor to Willard "Mittens" Romney, Stuart Stevens, penned an op-ed in in the Washington Post saying that Romney can take solace in the fact that he won the right kind of voters — “On Nov. 6, Mitt Romney carried the majority of every economic group
except those with less than $50,000 a year in household income,” — class war anyone? — the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll finds:
Sixty percent of all Americans back higher taxes on higher incomes in
the new Post-ABC data. Earlier this month, an identical 60 percent of
voters in the presidential election said income taxes should be raised
on income over $250,000, according to the national exit poll.
Only 44 percent support new limitations on the deductions people can
claim on their federal income taxes — a proposal that former
Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney put forward during his unsuccessful
2012 presidential campaign.
Even fewer — 30 percent — favor raising the age for Medicare from 65 to 67, part of a bid by Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker to avert the automatic spending cuts and tax increases that would hit if there is no deal by the end of the year.
The so-called "fiscal cliff" austerity crisis negotiations could be resolved today if Tea-Publicans would just stop clinging to positions rejected by the American people. Elections have consequences, Tea-Publicans made their case, and they lost. It is time for compromise — give the American people what they voted for.