Another Poll Shows Strong Majority Backs Ending Tax Cuts for the Rich

Gallup has the details.

A majority of Americans favor letting the tax cuts enacted during the Bush administration expire for the wealthy. While 37% support keeping the tax cuts for all Americans, 44% want them extended only for those making less than $250,000 and 15% think they should expire for all taxpayers.

These Gallup numbers, which show that a whopping 59 percent of Americans believe that tax cuts for the wealthy should be allowed to expire, largely track with other recent polling, which found a similar 56 percent majority holding the same position. Indeed, even the analysts at Gallup couldn't miss the obvious: the Democrats are on strong footing on the issue of taxes.

With about one in three Americans, including a minority of independents and Democrats, in favor of extending the Bush-era tax cuts for all taxpayers, Democrats may not be putting themselves at great political risk by allowing the tax cuts to expire for wealthy Americans. In fact, the middle ground of extending tax cuts for low- and middle-income Americans but allowing them to expire for wealthy Americans -- the Democrats' most likely proposal -- is the specific option the public prefers most.

Which is pretty much what I've been saying for a while.