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Poll: More than seven in 10 Americans want compromise on “fiscal cliff”

Two thirds of those questioned in the poll say that any agreement should include a mix of spending cuts and tax increases, with just under one in three saying a deal should only include spending cuts…

As for the sticking point between the parties over an increase in taxes for the wealthiest Americans, 56% say taxes on wealthy people should be kept high so the government can use their money for programs to help lower-income people, with 36% saying taxes on such high earners should be kept low because they invest their money in the private sector and that helps the economy and creates jobs…

The poll also indicates that the GOP is not exactly bargaining from a position of strength. Fifty-three percent of the country has an unfavorable view of the Republican Party; only 42% want to see congressional Republican have more influence than the president over the direction the nation takes in the next two years. And seven in ten say the GOP has not done enough to cooperate with Obama.

All of that helps explain why more Americans would blame the Republicans in Congress (45%) rather than Obama (34%) if the fiscal cliff provisions actually go into effect next year.

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As for the sticking point between the parties over an increase in taxes for the wealthiest Americans, 56% say taxes on wealthy people should be kept high so the government can use their money for programs to help lower-income people,

These 56% are nothing but slimeball thieves who think that they are entitled to the work of others. Offensive and disgusting. I want a divorce from these criminal looters.

ThePrimordialOrderedPair on November 26, 2012 at 10:33 AM

So, seven in ten “Americans” want us to be France, only with more body fat and less smoking in public? Well then F*** seven in ten “Americans”!!!

abobo on November 26, 2012 at 10:33 AM

Alas, the end is nigh.

steebo77 on November 26, 2012 at 10:40 AM

Working for my own bread and cheese is so hard, so I’ll steal others’./7 of 10.

OldEnglish on November 26, 2012 at 10:43 AM

They want compromise but will blame the only side offering any kind of compromise. Terrific.

forest on November 26, 2012 at 10:43 AM

The House should immediately pass a bill that includes Obama’s tax hikes for the rich, and call it the Our Lord and Savior Obama Deficit Reduction Plan.

faraway on November 26, 2012 at 10:43 AM

The media has communicated the Obama theme that fixing the George Bush tax rates to increase the taxes on millionaires and billionaires would fix Obama’s problems.

It doesn’t. And republicans think that raising taxes on the investor class just takes away from the money they invest in GROWING our GDP.

When the media starts saying that the important thing is to grow the GDP to increase tax revenue, then the polls will say 56% think Obama should grow the GDP to find more revenues. For some reason, places like CNN view growing the economy as a thing to be avoided. The GDP solves EVERYTHING. Jobs. Taxes. Happiness.

Growing taxes and growing the government sucks up free money.

Fleuries on November 26, 2012 at 10:44 AM

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win.

- Ayn Rand

Good Lt on November 26, 2012 at 10:44 AM

As for the sticking point between the parties over an increase in taxes for the wealthiest Americans, 56% say taxes on wealthy people should be kept high so the government can use their money for programs to help lower-income people, with 36% saying taxes on such high earners should be kept low because they invest their money in the private sector and that helps the economy and creates jobs…

We are so screwed.

gophergirl on November 26, 2012 at 10:45 AM

Let’s go over the cliff. Let the Cult of Obama own the resulting fiasco.

rbj on November 26, 2012 at 10:50 AM

56% say taxes on wealthy people should be kept high so the government can use their money for programs to help lower-income people

Most of the country is for European socialism redistribution and completely disregard the Constitution (not they ever learned about it in school to know it exists). Let’s just Thema and Louise it. It will be a painful lesson but better now than when my kids have to deal with it and it’s more painful.

batter on November 26, 2012 at 10:51 AM

As for the sticking point between the parties over an increase in taxes for the wealthiest Americans, 56% say taxes on wealthy people should be kept high so the government can use their money for programs to help lower-income people

The public clamors for free stuff, and seeks to rob others for the money to pay for it. Infuriating.

The poll also indicates that the GOP is not exactly bargaining from a position of strength. Fifty-three percent of the country has an unfavorable view of the Republican Party; only 42% want to see congressional Republican have more influence than the president over the direction the nation takes in the next two years. And seven in ten say the GOP has not done enough to cooperate with Obama.

Which is why the re-elected a Republican House? WTF?

Screw it…fluke ‘em all. Let’s face it, a majority in this country has no problem with socialism. America, I hardly knew ye.

changer1701 on November 26, 2012 at 10:51 AM

From the other thread:

America has re-elected Obama and the House leadership should say that they heard this message from the electorate. They should say that the United States is already in the “fortunate” position of higher tax rates without further legislation – the expiration of the Bush tax cuts. They should emphasize that the President gets his wish without any further bills needing to be past by Congress.

The electorate must understand that we re-elected this idiot and we are responsible for our decisions. Those who suddenly find themselves folded in to the tax paying sector of the population or paying higher taxes need to have this experience that their adulation of this Marxist comes at a cost. Maybe they will pay more attention during the next election because of what they will pay after January.

DaveDief on November 26, 2012 at 10:33 AM

Galt2009 on November 26, 2012 at 10:53 AM

batter on November 26, 2012 at 10:51 AM

Oh, yeah. Don’t compromise at all – just vote present and let the Dems have their rapidly fleeting social panacea as the economy crumbles. Let the redistributionists and 56% own it.

Meanwhile – hope the other 44% is smart enough to slash spending and prepare for a lousy few years.

batter on November 26, 2012 at 10:54 AM

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win.

- Ayn Rand

Good Lt on November 26, 2012 at 10:44 AM

“When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good.”

“Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral.”

“Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded.”

– Ayn Rand

Galt2009 on November 26, 2012 at 10:57 AM

Seven in ten Americans can’t find their asses with two hands and a flashlight.

NoNails on November 26, 2012 at 11:03 AM

Count me among those who would prefer to see us dive off this cliff. None of the sequester cuts are so deep as to be intolerable. None of the tax increases are so severe as to be intolerable. There’s no reason not to go over.

ernesto on November 26, 2012 at 11:08 AM

Count me among those who would prefer to see us dive off this cliff. None of the sequester cuts are so deep as to be intolerable. None of the tax increases are so severe as to be intolerable. There’s no reason not to go over.

ernesto on November 26, 2012 at 11:08 AM

Yes, and with all those new regulations and taxes, it will Guarantee a rip roaring economy, right partner!

Galt2009 on November 26, 2012 at 11:11 AM

Count me among those who would prefer to see us dive off this cliff. None of the sequester cuts are so deep as to be intolerable. None of the tax increases are so severe as to be intolerable. There’s no reason not to go over.

ernesto on November 26, 2012 at 11:08 AM

Well you got one out of four correct, which is a major improvement over your usual success rate of zero.

MelonCollie on November 26, 2012 at 11:11 AM

Poll: More than half of Americans don’t know what “fiscal cliff” means.

Clink on November 26, 2012 at 11:06 AM

THAT is the whole problem!

gophergirl on November 26, 2012 at 11:16 AM

CNN folks.

rockmom on November 26, 2012 at 11:28 AM

I don’t have the numbers in front of me, but I think a perfectly fine compromise would be a return to 2007 spending levels (Bush’s last budget) with whatever tax increases are necessary to balance the budget at that level of spending. And do it all in 3 years.

No compromise is acceptable without rolling back Obama’s massive spending increases.

rockmom on November 26, 2012 at 11:31 AM

Galt2009 on November 26, 2012 at 11:11 AM

Cutting taxes and regulation doesn’t guarantee one either, partner.

ernesto on November 26, 2012 at 11:41 AM

Count me among those who would prefer to see us dive off this cliff. None of the sequester cuts are so deep as to be intolerable. None of the tax increases are so severe as to be intolerable. There’s no reason not to go over.

ernesto on November 26, 2012 at 11:08 AM

I agree.

Let the growing legions of illiterate morons in our nation learn that printing money is not ‘sound fiscal policy,’ that massive new spending on ‘free stuff’ is not in any way ‘free,’ that looting the productive sector to engorge the unproductive sector is not ‘pro-growth,’ and that the laws of supply and demand cannot be legislated away simply because one doesn’t like them.

There are a lot of people right now feeling absolutely no pain as a result of the government’s unsustainable and irresponsible spending sprees that have skyrocketed under Obama. Let them start to feel some pain, get some of their skin in the game and perhaps learn these facts the hard way.

Agreed?

Good Lt on November 26, 2012 at 11:46 AM

Cutting taxes and regulation doesn’t guarantee one either, partner.

ernesto on November 26, 2012 at 11:41 AM

But increasing both does?

Good Lt on November 26, 2012 at 11:47 AM

Fund Your Utopia Without Me.™

Ditto to RWM

Schadenfreude on November 26, 2012 at 12:28 PM

SMH… it seems like on election night, conservatives/republicans, and many others woke up from their wet dream, just to find themselves in a real life nightmare…in a whole new world that calls itself “America”.

What I’m hearing right now are voices screaming in unison: WTF?!?!?!

I’ll tell you what I miss the most: Not 1 comment asking for partisan split…

My favs :)

The House should immediately pass a bill that includes Obama’s tax hikes for the rich, and call it the Our Lord and Savior Obama Deficit Reduction Plan.

faraway on November 26, 2012 at 10:43 AM

Seven in ten Americans can’t find their asses with two hands and a flashlight.

NoNails on November 26, 2012 at 11:03 AM

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win.

- Ayn Rand

Good Lt on November 26, 2012 at 10:44 AM

that last one was pretty funny LOL

Can.I.be.in.the.middle on November 26, 2012 at 12:40 PM

Yes, and they polled folks in People’s Square, Cambridge.

The GOP is in a no win situation. That being the case they should tell the socialist azzhats to take a flying leap.

dogsoldier on November 26, 2012 at 1:03 PM

Count me among those who would prefer to see us dive off this cliff. None of the sequester cuts are so deep as to be intolerable. None of the tax increases are so severe as to be intolerable. There’s no reason not to go over.

ernesto on November 26, 2012 at 11:08 AM

You aren’t from around here, are you? You are ill informed. The tax increase will put us in recession in a New York minute.

dogsoldier on November 26, 2012 at 1:08 PM

Two thirds of those questioned in the poll say that any agreement should include a mix of spending cuts and tax increases, with just under one in three saying a deal should only include spending cuts…

Fully 85% of those polled actually believed that there is something called a “spending cut”.

Poor, sad, stupid little saps.

Jaibones on November 26, 2012 at 1:30 PM