Public opposition to tax bill grows as vote approaches

Interesting that the poll didn't ask about how the tax plan would affect the nation, our economy, jobs, or growth. Most questions were divisive...they divided Americans by income, by state, and even by family. Polls get the answers they seek.

I personally am opposed to any tax cuts. Right now we actually need to raise taxes across the board. Unfortunately because we have regularly cut taxes since the early 1980's both at the federal and state levels, spent more than anticipated each yea,r and haven't seen the growth in the economy that you need to justify the tax cuts in the first place, we now have infrastructure on life support, our education system is significantly underfunded, we barely fund research and development anymore (which was one of the major driving factors for the US's dramatic growth post WW2), and we continue to worry about ensuring programs such as social security and Medicare/Medicaid stay solvent.

Not that I want to beat up on Kansas but they took tax cuts to the extreme and look a how they now have one of the worst education systems that is severely underfunded. They were once the shining example of road maintenance and management. Now their infrastructure is crumbling.

R&D at universities use to be very well federally funded leading to major technological advances. Now most funding comes from donors and other sources which drives up educational costs to levels where most students must obtain crippling levels of debt.

Social security has a top end caps on contributions which limits the ability of the system to stay solvent. If we really want to make it fair then all income should be taxes at the 6.2% and not have is cap out at around $120,000.

There are no programs that you can cut at the Federal or State level that will generate enough extra money to support what is needed to revitalize our infrastructure, education, R&D, and social security. With these four bedrock programs the US will continue to decay.

Bottom line, I like tax cuts as much as the next person but we are not meeting our responsibilities and not really paying our bills and no matter what tax cuts you put in place you will not have the economic growth that will compensate for those losses. We sadly must raise taxes and pay the bills.

Reagan's tax cuts at only 18% approval, and then the Country Florist, polls are irrelevant, the only opposition is Democrats with no solution, and the only States unhappy with it are the ones that are going broke because their entitlement programs are out of control