[PAA-Discuss] Write Obama and tell him to raise taxes on the hallowed 1%

[C. Lee Taylor]

Apparently the Obama is grounding his extensions of the Bush tax cuts on a
Gallup poll indicating most folk support it. Kindly write and request they
do something more equitable for all of us: Raise the taxes of those in the
1% bracket to 90%!
Link to White House contact page here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

Form the Huffington Post:
Hoping to build support for the tax-cut deal that the president reached with
Congressional Republicans, the White House has begun pressing Hill Democrats
with polling data showing that extending the tax rates for the rich is
politically popular.

A Senate aide sent over a copy of the email that an administration aide sent
to offices on Wednesday morning. In it, the aide touts Gallup polling
data<http://www.gallup.com/poll/145109/Americans-Support-Major-Elements-Tax-Compromise.aspx>showing
that "Two-thirds of Americans (66%) favor extending the 2001/2003
tax cuts for all Americans for two years, and an identical number support
extending unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed."

That an administration would promote polling data backing its policy
preferences is normally not an astounding revelation. But the private push
of the Gallup study struck the Senate aide as depressing if not
counter-productive. Even as the president was insisting that he thought an
extension of rates for the wealthy is poor economics -- "I'm as opposed to
the high-end tax cuts today as I've been for years," Obama said on Tuesday
-- his aides were privately embracing the idea that extending the Bush tax
cuts across the board was politically prudent...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/08/white-house-privately-pus_n_793732.html
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