pew research has been doing some terrific holiness like as it gives you a
real interesting
view into the mindset of the american vote
and this time they asked about
uh... the rich and taxes and justice et cetera some very interesting results
so first of all
uh... you know how the republicans have been saying throughout
off
the richer taxed too much we have one of the highest tax rates on the world they
say that about corporate taxes and oftentimes they pretend to say they say
it
and pretend that we have it in regards to
personal income taxes which of course is nowhere near true
now wait a defective rates
of what the rich the corporations pay its
actually among the lowest in the world
but emailing combat-ready hotpot like i went back to top up at you might like to
know whatsoever
it's about great use in a million times right
so what percentage of americans believe the rich pay too much in taxes
so despite
all of that propaganda and oftentimes supported by the media by people like
erin burnett
who's up for the banks of the reg right
inspite
all of that effort that could
cost them scenes of the house the world
ads going on television et cetera et cetera
they could only get eight percent of the american people to believe that that
rich are taxed too much
now the rest of the those numbers fifty-eight percent believe the rich
don't pay enough
and twenty six percent believe the rich pay their fair share
nearly sixteen ten americans say come on that
or you can take
who honestly don't pan out
look remember
the top bracket in the top bracket is different sometimes if you get applying
to incomes that were much higher back in the day right but from the nineteen
fifties to the nineteen seventies
seventy four percent ninety one percent ninety four percent
for that week linda thirty five percent is way too high is ridiculous
if it was a seventy percent lead when they didn't even i think you could make
a case that's too hot but i thirty five percent
people he also can't make that case 'cause we've seen
the last ten years
we cut taxes from the clinton era and what happened we didn't create jobs we'd
lost jobs
when they were higher during the clinton era we had twenty two and a half million
jobs created many years
the best period of
that employment innum aircon history ok so now
uh... that interesting second part of this is that
wenyi asked
the opera class and this is people who say i'm upper-class
or am upper-middle-class itself identify that way
behaving the rich are not taxed enough you think will they would send
no i don't pay more taxes were cut backs planning right
even a majority of them
fifty two percent say we're not taxed enough
it just
the taxes are too low because they know at a big baby
how would presumably a lot of them pay the taxes and all days and they've been
down there like or wants more than they used to be
it's kind of incredible
so third amazing part of this
they and they're good people once again in you know i'm one of the few guys who
believes there are people in the long run are
sparknotes acu what they're doing not a lot of mistakes which right now that
and but
look they're right they don't blame the rich they actually have no problems with
the rich
quarter let me give you the percentages
they see rich people are more likely be intelligent forty three percent of them
say that
give us a plurality
hard
uh... again forty two percent say which are more likely to be hard working
um...
and fifty five percent say that the rich racine an
all also to be more likely to be greedy so there's a good and the bat right
uh... so
now look do i agree to the richer more intelligent or more pre-war i'm not sure
but i think there makes like everybody else just you know money has a
corrupting influence at times but of their of course can be just as
intelligent
and some are more tells a summer lessons eldon
it also depends on whether you made on your own let's keep it real
if you're an entrepreneur like conrad hilton you're probably pretty smart guy
that bill clinton supported if his granddaughter you among the super rats
your paris hilton
yes i think it's a bright so obviously sat next
so i think the american people are right about that as well
but what they say is
it's not that we're concerned
that they're bad guys it's that were concerned that they're not paying their
fair share
sixty-three percent american city g_o_p_ favors the rich over the middle class
and poor
seventy one percent of ronnie's election would be good for wealthy people
so the promises that mit romney is rich
the problem is that he is going to give more breaks
two of the rich when they don't need them
wonderbra satellite about that
remember f_d_r_ was rich
but you know what he hit a rock the vote was rich
but they have breaks the rich
they look out for the middle class
but that's not what romney place do romney
once again at contacts cut to the rich
and even the rich here are saying oh come on it's too much
and now uh...
more interesting steps
um...
but in fact
yet here it is kim parker associate director of the few social demographic
trends
she analyzes i'll ever quote on it she says the faq iran they may be viewed as
wealthy doesn't necessarily pose a problem for a skin to see
this is her analysis of the numbers
the challenge for on the lies more the fact that large majority say if he's
elected president his policies would likely
benefit the wealthy
a million per cent right
and now uh... how about obama
here they're actually wrong
and this is interesting right
they say that uh...
sixty percent say that if obama's reelected his policies will benefit the
poor
while half say the bill help the middle class
and only thirty-seven percent say they'll boost the wealthy
and uh... and only twenty percent say the democratic party isn't it to help
the rich
i got bad news for u
the democratic party also here to help the rich ok now what's fascinating about
that is epl
uh... ronnie's campaign blaming all baba are you glad to help people with
on state that center
might i add one ugly beat helping
when in reality
president obama give the same chinese bailouts the banks
that the republicans that
almost nothing to the homeowners like the republicans that so many of us
policies also favor the rich in fact president obama says he will love the
corporate taxes to twenty percent of these re-elected
so he has
in some way similar policies obviously not nearly as extreme as romney in the
republicans they want to help the rich it up more grandiose way
but the reality is the democrats are her here to help either
it says that by comparison
they seem heavily compared to the republicans who you are positive
will help the richest greedy over
on that part
you're absolutely right