{"id":5346,"date":"2010-12-03T21:53:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T02:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=5346"},"modified":"2010-12-03T21:53:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T02:53:44","slug":"only-46-of-republicans-support-extending-bush-tax-cuts-for-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/12\/03\/only-46-of-republicans-support-extending-bush-tax-cuts-for-the-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 46% of REPUBLICANS Support Extending Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 3 December 2010, ThinkProgress reports\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/12\/03\/gop-base-tax-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\">CBS Poll Finds Only 46 Percent of Republicans Support GOP\u2019s Stand on Extending Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-20024494-503544.html\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News poll released last night<\/a> finds that 53 percent of Americans want the Bush-era tax cuts \u201cextended only for households earning less than $250,000 per year,\u201d a position that was advanced by a House vote yesterday. Another 14 percent want to expire all of the Bush tax cuts. Taken together, two-thirds of Americans (67 percent) want to end the Bush tax cuts for the rich. One interesting statistic from the survey indicates that the GOP\u2019s push for giving the richest 2 percent an additional tax cut is not even supported by its own base:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Only ten percent of Democrats and one in four independents back the GOP proposal to extend the tax cuts for all. <strong>Even among Republicans, support for extending all the cuts is less than half at 46 percent<\/strong>.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the White House is indicating to the GOP leadership in private negotiations that it is willing to acquiesce on its views and temporarily extend the tax cuts for the rich.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I, personally, would like to see ALL of the Bush tax cuts expire, and have the freed-up funds spent on extending unemployment benefits, shoring up Medicare, extending funds to the states, and investing in future growth by funding education, infrastructure, and research.<\/p>\n<p>-RichardH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 3 December 2010, ThinkProgress reports\u00a0 CBS Poll Finds Only 46 Percent of Republicans Support GOP\u2019s Stand on Extending Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich. A CBS News poll released last night finds that 53 percent of Americans want the Bush-era tax cuts \u201cextended only for households earning less than $250,000 per year,\u201d a position [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-richardhsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5347,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346\/revisions\/5347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}