Most Americans expect higher taxes

All of the talk about federal dedicits has people skittish.

Winning the Irish Sweepstakes?

There will be no increase on taxes for those making less.

The President has been abundantly clear on this promise.

I certainly understand the need for taxes but I am drowning in them. I am not going to put my income online but I am lower middle class and if you count social security and medicare (and I do) I pay 51% of my income in taxes add to that property tax, fees for everything government etc. I could use a life preserver. If our money was spent well I am progressive enough I might just shut up and take it, but the President recently authorized 75 billion (yes billion) in foreign aid to ha mas. That quite frankly makes my @$$ sore. My friend's mother recently passed away and she stood to inherit the family farm but because of what the farm was assessed at (due to developer scum) the inheritance tax was to high and beyond my friends reach, she had to sell the farm that had been in her family since 1897! And as a cherry on top the taxes were so high on what she got for the property that she lost OVER half of that in taxes. For our party to be successful in the future we must remedy this situation.

The tobacco tax impacted people of lower income most.

People have the choice to buy smokes or not.

people also have the choice to buy gasoline. Amish get by without gasoline. The largest percentage of smokers are in the less educated lower income population, is it not? Did government give these people any help to get off tobacco? Maybe some people just like to smoke, the hell with the health consequences, we all die eventually anyway. I don't think it is the governments role to determine what life style choices people make. Next thing the government will become the diet police and start taxing the hell out of foods they don't approve of. The whole premise of taxing tobacco has absolutely nothing to do with making people quit since if they actually did they would have to find another source of revenue it's just taxing them because the majority doesn't smoke. I haven't smoked since 1981 but I think it is ridiculous today how people that smoke are treated like second class citizens. I work in steel mill and people aren't permitted to smoke in any building, the hot mill building is 1/2 mile long and full of dust, smoke and pollutants and you can't smoke a cigarette it's ridiculous.

of whether to earn an income or not.

What's your point?

So far Bernanke is not having much success fighting deflation, so...

Most Americans aren't stupid.

I'm aggravated by Obama's insistence on an impossible campaign promise - it seems to me that he is undercutting his own party.

Wouldn't matter if the House, Senate and Presidency were all controlled by Republicans - most Americans would have to pay higher taxes. It's time to get real.

You cannot successfully tax people with no jobs and no income.

So no of those Americans were worried about paying higher taxes when the Bush administration was bushing for two wars?

Still true today as when it was spoken.

ask one of them what the the difference between their tax bracket is(the % of tax paid on their last dollar earned) and their effective tax rate (tax % on total income). See what they say?

Can we double the taxes collected?

Is that even physically possible?

keep borrowing from China and push economic policies that create massive inflation. Under Bush we had inflation in oil, commodities, housing, equities, education, health costs... everything except for wages.

Inflation, for all intents and purposes, is a tax, even though no one calls it that. It's a tax on savers and wage earners with the benefits going to borrowers and favored asset holders.

It's not likely that we can continue this course because Bush and co. pushed it fairly close to the limits.