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Poll: Majority wants tax cuts eliminated for wealthy, extended for others

Fifty-one percent of adults believe that the Bush tax cuts should be allowed to expire for wealthy families, but should be extended for middle- and lower-class families.

A CNN/Opinion Research poll released Friday showed a narrow majority for one option lawmakers are considering for handling the Bush tax cuts, which are set to expire at the end of this year.

Asked which of the following statements comes closest to their view, 51 percent said "those tax cuts should continue for families that make less than 250 thousand dollars a year, but taxes should rise to the previous level for families who make more than that amount."

• 1) Shut down government to stop health care bill.
• 2) Attempt to privatize Social Security.
• 3) Spend every waking hour investigating the Obama administration.
• 4) Repeal the 14th amendment -- divest immigrants' children of citizenship.
• 5) Cap and trade? Forget about it.
• 6) More disastrous economic policies like the practices that caused our financial crisis.
• 7) Kill or drastically slash Food Stamp program
• 8) Roll back and repeal equal rights for gays.
• 9) Abandon the unemployed.
• 10) Paralyze one branch of our government.

• 1) Abolish minimum wage laws which would force American workers to work for less pay.
• 2) Block unemployment benefits forcing millions of Americans to literally starve.
• 3) Slash Social Security benefits-even up to half of what they are now forcing senior citizens to literally starve.
• 4) Gut Medicare funding.
• 5) Gut Medicaid funding.
• 6) Abolish Department of Education.
• 7) Abolish Department of Energy.
• 8) Abolish the Veteran's Administration.
• 9) Cut much of state financial aid needed to avoid massive layoffs of teachers, police, fire, etc..
• 10) Cutting state aid would have a trickle down effect on local municipalities/suburbs-forcing them to do layoffs of police, fire, as well as close libraries, etc.
• 11) Defund various categories of new heath care reform stripping millions of Americans of much needed access to quality health care.
• 12) Reverse aspects of financial reform to aid corporate/wall street in the continuation of unscrupulous practices against Americans.
• 13) Extend tax cuts for the richest 2% adding an additional $830 billion more in deficits.
• 14) Block funding for homeless veterans and homeless women.
• 15) Disregard the needs of middle America, minorities and the poor.
• 16) Work toward increased privatization of prisons.
• 17) Block lending programs/tax breaks for small businesses.
• 18) Paralyze the Obama administration with endless subpoenas and investigations in hopes of impeaching President Obama.
• 19) Will literally shut down the government by defunding programs.
• 20) Repeal the 14th amendment which provides citizenship to all people born in the U.S.
• 21) Kill cap and trade efforts.
• 22) Slash food stamp programs.
• 23) Roll back and repeal equal rights for gays.
• 24) Privatize Social Security.
• 25) Cut education spending along with college student aid.