AP: Americans want balanced budget, not tax cuts

[Killarney]

This is good.

Bush wants more tax cuts and will no way-no how balance the budget. Kerry wants to and will balance the budget by repealing the Bush tax cuts on top 2%. More Americans agree with Kerry.

Also, more Americans believe they pay more in taxes now than 3 years ago (fed, state, local all added up).

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=5&u=/ap/20040413/ap_on_re_us/taxes_ap_poll_3
Poll: Balanced Budget Beats Tax Cuts

By almost a 2-1 margin, Americans prefer balancing the nation's budget to cutting taxes, according to an Associated Press poll, even though many believe their overall tax burden has risen despite tax cuts over the past three years.

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Half in the poll, 49 percent, said their overall tax burden — including federal, state and local taxes — had gone up over the past three years. That's almost four times the 13 percent in the poll who said their overall taxes had gone down.