Most Americans oppose tax cuts for the rich

53% of Americans only want the Bush era tax cuts extended to households earning less than $250,000. 14% of Americans polled want all Bush era tax cuts to expire. When combined, 67% of Americans want tax cuts for the rich to end. Meanwhile, only 46% of Republicans polled want the Bush era tax cuts extended for the rich.

CBS News:

Republicans have argued that the midterm elections have given them a mandate on what they are calling one of the most important issues facing America, the extension of the Bush-era tax cuts.

"The American people want us to stop all the looming tax hikes and to cut spending, and that should be the priority of the remaining days that we have in this Congress," incoming House Speaker Rep. John Boehner said Thursday. Boehner added that a House vote Thursday to extend the cuts for all but the highest-earning Americans amounted to "chicken crap."

According to a new CBS News poll, however, Boehner is off-base in his claim that Americans "want us to stop all the looming tax hikes."

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