Americans Are OK With Class Warfare

Some two-thirds of Americans want to see the wealthiest among us pay more taxes, including the "job creating" corporations.

For those labeling President Barack Obama's recent comments about taxes "class warfare," a majority of Americans may think differently.

At least two-thirds of Americans believe that high income earners should be taxed at a larger rate, according to a recent poll from Gallup about Obama's jobs plan proposals.

Sixty-six percent of Americans told the polling firm that individuals making at least $200,000, or families bring home $250,000, should see an increase in taxes. There's an even larger majority in favoring an elimination of tax deductions for corporations, with 70 percent of the public agreeing that wealthy corporations should pay higher taxes.

The survey also included some positive Republican feedback for President Obama's plan. Fifty-three percent of GOP voters favoring deductions for corporations to be eliminated. 

So when GOP House majority leader Eric Cantor said this yesterday:

“Unfortunately what we’ve seen now is the president has made a decision that he’s going to go into full campaign mode now 14 months before the election,” Cantor told reporters after a GOP conference meeting Wednesday. “And that’s fine, that’s his decision. But what he’s going to find when he goes traveling out to Republican districts across the country is he’ll learn that people don’t want their taxes raised.”

...is that he's a liar.  Republicans indeed want to see taxes raised in order to reduce the deficit.  Keep that in mind when President Obama speaks today in Cincy.