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YORK (Reuters) – Most Americans think the United States should raise taxes for
the rich to balance the budget, according to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll
released on Monday.</DIV>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 1em; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">President
Barack Obama last month signed into law a two-year extension of <A
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target=undefined><FONT
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class=kLink>Bush-era </SPAN><SPAN
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class=kLink>tax </SPAN><SPAN
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class=kLink>cuts</SPAN></FONT></A> for millions of Americans, including
the wealthiest, in a compromise with Republicans.</DIV>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 1em; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">Republicans,
who this week take control of the House of Representatives, want to extend all
Bush-era tax cuts "permanently" for the middle class and wealthier Americans.
They are also demanding <A
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class=kLink>spending </SPAN><SPAN
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class=kLink>cuts</SPAN></FONT></A> to curb the $1.3 trillion
deficit.</DIV>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 1em; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">Sixty-one
percent of Americans polled would rather see taxes for the wealthy increased
as a first step to tackling the deficit, the poll showed.</DIV>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 1em; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">The
next most popular way -- chosen by 20 percent -- was to cut defense
spending.</DIV>
<DIV
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percent would cut the Medicare government health insurance program for the
elderly, and 3 percent would cut the <A
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class=kLink>Social </SPAN><SPAN
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class=kLink>Security </SPAN><SPAN
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class=kLink>retirement </SPAN><SPAN
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class=kLink>program</SPAN></FONT></A>, the poll showed.</DIV>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 1em; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">Asked
which part of the world they would fix first, the largest proportion of
respondents -- 36 percent -- chose Washington, compared with 23 percent who
picked the <A
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class=kLink>Middle </SPAN><SPAN
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class=kLink>East</SPAN></FONT></A> and 14 percent who chose Haiti.</DIV>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 1em; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">The
poll included a random sample of 1,067 adults across the United States from
November 29 to December 2. The margin of error may be plus or minus 3
percentage points, 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair said.</DIV>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 1em; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">(Reporting
by Kristina Cooke; Editing by Daniel Trotta and Peter
Cooney)</DIV></DIV></DIV></SPAN></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>