Friday, March 04, 2011

WHAT THE WALL STREET JOURNAL DIDN'T MENTION

(h/t George Zornick at Think Progress)

The WSJ/NBC poll I mentioned below has some results that so far the WSJ hasn't  mentioned but MSNBC did:
The survey — which was conducted Feb. 24-28 of 1,000 adults (200 reached by cell phone), and which has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points — also listed 26 different ways to reduce the federal budget deficit.

The most popular: placing a surtax on federal income taxes for those who make more than $1 million per year (81 percent said that was acceptable), eliminating spending on earmarks (78 percent), eliminating funding for weapons systems the Defense Department says aren’t necessary (76 percent) and eliminating tax credits for the oil and gas industries (74 percent).
Phasing out the Bush tax cuts for families making over $250,000 was acceptable to "only" 68%.

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