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Friday, March 27, 2009

Poll Shows Majority Believe Lower Taxes help Economy

Democrats in the Senate are talking of cutting back President Obama's pledge of tax cuts for most Americans in the face of record deficits. But 63% of U.S. voters now say tax cuts would help the economy, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

That’s up from 56% in February and marks the highest level found in years of tracking this question. Scott Rasmussen has posed this polling question regularly since the mid-nineties and Rasmussen Reports now tracks it on a monthly basis.

Only 13% say tax cuts would hurt the economy, down from 16% a month ago.

Most voters (51%) believe increasing taxes would hurt the economy, the highest reading on this question since early January. Just under a quarter (23%) of voters say tax increases would help the country's economic situation. - Rasmussen Story

Imagine that. Lowering taxes would be good for the economy? I think I have heard that more than once over the last year. I don't recall hearing it from Obama, Pelosi, Reid though. I wonder who could have been saying that?

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