What Americans Like
[Guest post by DRJ]
A recent Gallup poll shows Americans support an Obama stimulus plan that creates infrastructure jobs and provides tax cuts:
“Large majorities of Americans say they would favor including income tax cuts (72%), tax cuts for businesses (75%), and a government infrastructure program that would create new jobs (78%) as part of a new economic stimulus package.”
Republicans like the tax cuts but Democrats don’t:
“Top U.S. Senate Democrats on Thursday raised concerns about some of the tax breaks that may be included in a stimulus plan aimed at boosting the stricken economy, questioning if they would have a significant impact.
President-elect Barack Obama urged that state aid and spending on infrastructure be coupled with tax cuts in an effort to win over Republicans skeptical about large spending programs. The tax initiatives could total some $310 billion.”
Democratic leaders support government spending but are skeptical about tax cuts. That’s why I’m skeptical about Democrats.
— DRJ
Yeah, Americans want tax cuts AND more spending. What else is new?
JVW (bff0a4) — 1/10/2009 @ 10:44 pmWe like bread and circuses too.
For the short terms, tax cuts and spending does make sense (provided the spending is on infrastructure we need). Look at it this way, there sure as hell not going to be money to provide universal health care.
Joe (17aeff) — 1/10/2009 @ 11:24 pm“Large majorities of Americans say they would favor including income tax cuts (72%), tax cuts for businesses (75%),”
We like tax cuts that are tax cuts. Calling an IRS-check-cutting program a ‘tax cut’ is an attack on the English language.
Obama’s tax cuts are pitiful shadows of real tax cuts that would help the economy, which would be permanent tax rate reductions.
Travis Monitor (cfa2f1) — 1/10/2009 @ 11:56 pm“Look at it this way, there sure as hell not going to be money to provide universal health care.”
Doh! Wrong! Congress is already going to raise cig taxes and expand by tens of billions the SCHIP program. Waxman called it a ‘dwonpayment on national health insurance. And Daschle is on record saying nonsense like “we cant afford NOT to nationalize healthcare in this economic environment” – we are doomed!
they are committed to national socialist health insurance. Call it … Nazi-care?
Travis Monitor (cfa2f1) — 1/10/2009 @ 11:58 pmThe big part of the desire for this particular “New Deal” is the time gap between this one and the original. The constant revisionist history promulgated by MSM and academia is less and less likely to meet up with people who experienced the original. Something about 70 years and a lack of eye-witness accounts.
And this Keynesian philosophy of borrowing your way out of the doldrums is wholly lacking in logic.
John Hitchcock (fb941d) — 1/11/2009 @ 3:55 amAnd Congress is getting ready to add a big chunk to the gasoline tax. When we were paying $4.00 a gallon this summer, the libs said we can’t afford to put the gasoline tax on holiday to help the economy. Now that we are paying around $2.00 a gallon, the libs are saying we need to hike the gasoline tax to finish paving WV or something.
I am currently paying about 50 cents a gallon on gasoline tax or fully 1/4 of the final price in taxes. And for lower-income working-class people, those “working poor” the libs snuggle up to, such forms of taxation hit them the hardest. Go figure.
John Hitchcock (fb941d) — 1/11/2009 @ 4:02 amDemocratic leaders support government spending but are skeptical about tax cuts. That’s why I’m skeptical about Democrats.
love2008 who will now be known as Emperor7 (1b037c) — 1/11/2009 @ 4:54 am– DRJ
Obama does seem as if he is breaking faith with his base on several things. Do you think he intends to run a partisan administration? Or is he showing his true colors? Is he a closet Republican? He has done more things so far to appeal to people on the other side of the aisle.
Here’s a novel idea…
The Dems don’t want to cut taxes…So Don’t!
The Reps don’t want massive public works projects…So Don’t!
Now that we’ve solved that impasse,
AD (f2ee3d) — 1/11/2009 @ 8:05 amCongress should go on vacation for 21 months and leave us the Hell alone –
the Nation will be safer for it.
Is he a closet Republican? He has done more things so far to appeal to people on the other side of the aisle.
Do you suppose there is a possibility that he is doing things that make sense ? It is a pure coincidence that they are also Republican policies.
Or is it ?
The “infrastructure” thing will quietly fade away in a cloud of enviro BS and saving cuddly kangaroo rats. When this bill gets out of Congress, even its own mother wouldn’t recognize it.
Mike K (ee3203) — 1/11/2009 @ 9:12 amI like AD’s plan — very Libertarian!
Bradley J. Fikes (0ea407) — 1/11/2009 @ 9:18 amWe need to build bridges in MN by spending 1 mil per MS teen we get a temp part-time job, at an additional cost of 700 mil. And if you vote against the entire bill due to your inability to close this amendment to the bill and your disdain for this amendment, you will be voting against the bill because you want school buses to plummet into the Mississippi River on their way to inner-city St Louis schools. Anyone who dares do such a thing is a racist.
John Hitchcock (fb941d) — 1/11/2009 @ 9:19 amIn a nutshell:
Democratic plan: take a bunch of money out of your wallet every week. At the end of the year hand you $2600, asking, “Don’t you feel richer? Aren’t you grateful to us?”
Republican plan: take $50 less each week.
Steverino (69d941) — 1/11/2009 @ 9:45 amHell, I’m skeptical about Congress. AND the new Administration.
RickZ (472435) — 1/11/2009 @ 2:26 pm$1.5T for a promise to “save” 3M jobs works out to about $500,000 per job. Paying half a million clams for a ditch digger is a good deal in hopeandchange land.
MJBrutus (dc3d12) — 1/12/2009 @ 4:11 amAnother thing Americans like is the $20 a month pay-back to the company for each employee that rides a bicycle to work.
Or is that pork? Or maybe just a bit of feel-good nonsense?
John Hitchcock (fb941d) — 1/13/2009 @ 6:27 pm