December 2011
20 posts
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Polls that don't matter: Taxes & the rich
52% of Americans called the rich-poor gap “an acceptable part of our economic system”:
In a Dec. 16 Gallup poll, 52 percent of Americans called the rich-poor gap “an acceptable part of our economic system.” Only 45 percent said it “needs to be fixed.”
Hmm, you know what this means, right? There is absolutely no need for any more polls. All those previous polls that have shown income...
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Polls that don't matter: Fair taxation
57% of Americans think that the rich should pay more:
Pew recently found that 57 percent of Americans now say the wealthy don’t pay enough in taxes, and 55 percent say the tax system is unfair
Why do Americans punish job creators like Steven Schwarzman who thinks a 3% rise in his taxes is akin to Hitler marching on Poland? Besides, good ole Steve thinks its not the rich who need to pay more,...
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Polls that dont matter: Small Business Tax Credits
57% of small business owners don’t know about tax credits embedded in Obamacare:
With the economy still in a slump, small business owners like me are doing everything we can to keep our costs down. A particularly troublesome cost for my business is health insurance.
However, I recently learned there are tax credits in the new healthcare law specifically for small businesses that will...
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Polls that dont matter: Iraqi on Operation Iraqi...
60% of Iraqis fear a possible civil war, partition of the country, outsized foreign influence by neighbors, terrorism, or economic woes:
Iraqis, overall, feel that their country is “worse off” because of the U.S.-led war there — perhaps, for example, because Baghdad recently ranked as the worst place on the planet to live — with strong divergences across ethnic groups. Likewise, in the U.S., ...
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Polls that dont matter: Operation Iraqi Freedoms
78% of Americans approve of Obama ending this shitty war:
Do you approve or disapprove of the decision to remove all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of this year? Approve: 78 Disapprove: 21
Which, of course, means that Obama lost the war The Decider declared we won in 2005.
Mitt Romney Takes Three Positions On Iraq In Fox News Sunday Interview
When host Chris Wallace asked him...
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Polls that dont matter: Congress Approval
11% of Americans approve of the work Congress does (or mostly, what they dont do - work):
A new record-low 11% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, the lowest single rating in Gallup’s history of asking this question since 1974. This earns Congress a 17% yearly average for 2011, the lowest annual congressional approval rating in Gallup history
This isnt bad news for GOP...
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Polls that dont matter: Taxing the rich
67% of Californians support taxing the rich a little more:
Polling released Thursday shows that 67 percent of California voters support the initiative that will be on the ballot in November 2012 that would require millionaires to pay more progressive tax rates in order to restore funding for education and other essential programs
Where do these golden raisin growing, latte sipping surfer...
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Polls that dont matter: Occupy
44% of Americans still support Occupy Wall Street and their very strange, undecipherable difficult to understand anti-crony capitalism message
From what you’ve read and heard about the Occupy Wall Street movement involving demonstrations in cities around the country, do you strongly support, somewhat support, somewhat oppose, or strongly oppose the Occupy Wall Street Movement?
Support...
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Polls that don't matter: 2012 Elections
70% of Americans want the 2012 campaign to end already:
Seventy percent of respondents can’t wait for the campaign to be over. Twenty percent for some reason can’t wait for it to start and just 4 percent are indifferent.
Interestingly, voters on both sides of the aisle share a similar distaste for the 2012 contest: 67 percent of Democrats and 66 percent of Republicans can’t wait for the...
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Polls that dont matter: Immigration Reform
66% of Americans think there should path to citizenship if the a person meets requirements such as paying back taxes and learning English:
Regardless of political party affiliation, most respondents supported a path to legalization.
A majority of Republicans (57 percent), independents (68 percent) and Democrats (73 percent) said they supported giving undocumented immigrants a path to...
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Polls that dont matter: Affordable Care Act
80% of employers will continue to offer health care to their employees in 2014 once the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges become operational:
HighRoads, the industry leader in employer health care compliance and benefits management, today announced findings from its November “Pulse Survey” to assess employers’ sense of preparedness and...
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Polls that dont matter: The 1%
77% of Americans think the 1% has too much power:
Roughly three-quarters of the public (77%) say that they think there is too much power in the hands of a few rich people and large corporations in the United States. In a 1941 Gallup poll, six-in-ten (60%) Americans expressed this view.
Reflecting a parallel sentiment, 61% of Americans now say the economic system in this country unfairly favors...
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Polls that dont matter: Belief in "higher...
93% of Americans say they believe in God or a higher power:
The rest of us, it turns out, constitute the nation’s fastest-growing religious demographic. We are the Nones, the roughly 12 percent of people who say they have no religious affiliation at all. The percentage is even higher among young people; at least a quarter are Nones.
Apparently, a growing number of Americans are running from...
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Polls that dont matter: Climate Change
76% of religious Americans want to confront climate change:
In [the University of Maryland] poll, 76 percent of respondents said preventing climate change is an important goal. Among them, 32 percent said it falls within their obligation to protect God’s creation. A bigger group, at 44 percent, didn’t think of it as an obligation. But it was important to defend against rising temperatures...
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Polls that dont matter: TSA XRays
46% of Americans dont want to be bombarded by x-rays:
The TSA has repeatedly touted a series of polls showing strong public support for the scanners. But those polls and surveys – conducted by Gallup, The Wall Street Journal and various travel sites – largely dealt with the privacy issue.
When confronted with the cancer-terrorism trade-off, however, Americans took a much more negative view of...
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Polls that dont matter: Financial Bailouts
60% of Americans oppose bailing out #banksters:
Just 20% think it was a good idea for the government to provide bailout funding to banks and other financial institutions, but 60% say otherwise.
While many activists try to link the Republican Party and Wall Street, Republicans think the bailouts were a bad idea by an eight-to-one margin.
Those not affiliated with either major party think they...
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Polls that dont matter: Teanut America
20% of Americans agree with the Teanuts:
A new poll from the Pew Research Center shows that support for the Tea Party — and with it the Republican Party — has dropped precipitously in the last year. Now just 20% say they agree with the Tea Party, less than the 27% who disagree. But the news gets worse for Republicans: their favorability has dropped even further in Tea Party districts.
This...
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Polls that dont matter: Afghanistan War
59% want America to get the shiat out of Afghanistan:
A new Rasmussen poll released today finds that 59 percent of likely voters nationwide want all U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan within one year. Twenty-nine percent opposed any pull out time table.
And thats from a Rasmussen poll. If a legitimate polling group surveys, the result will be probably 79% against this shitty war.
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Polls that matter: Foursquare
Only 5% of America checks in:
Only about 5% of U.S. online adults said they use location apps at least once a month, according to a new Forrester survey of more than 37,000 respondents. That’s only up 4% from last year, even though the overall audience of online adults familiar with these services increased to 30% this year, vs. 16% in 2010
Any word on how Americans checked out of...
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Polls that dont matter: Legalizing Weed
60% of New Jerseyans feel penalties for marijuana use should be relaxed:
In the almost 40 years since Rutgers-Eagleton first asked about penalties for marijuana use, New Jerseyans have become more relaxed about the issue. In May 1972, four in 10 New Jerseyans said penalties for marijuana use should be reduced.
Yep, its always had support, but, you know, freedoms means tax cuts for rich, but...