Support for single-payer PLUMMETS in new poll when Americans find out what it actually means…AND MORE!

NBC and the WSJ released a new poll today and in the poll they report on how people feel about a variety of topics.

Take for instance Single-payer health care. They first report that Americans are almost equally divided on it:

The public is divided over a single-payer health care system, with 47 percent favoring such an approach and 46 percent opposing it.

But then in the very next paragraph…

But when supporters are told that all health care costs would be covered under a single-payer system — but that it would eliminate employer plans and that there would be only one government plan — the numbers move to 36 percent favor, 55 percent oppose.

LOL! When Americans find out just how craptastic single-payer really is, support plummets!

You know, I bet we could get that 36 percent down just a bit more if we add in something like this:

A single-payer system may result in rationed health care where patients have to wait months to get specialty services like surgeries, CT scans, etc. This rationed care could result in amputations or possibly death, as has already occurred in the VA single-payer system.

Not to mention a single-payer system could bankrupt America!

There’s also something else in this poll that must be addressed. Just read the following paragraph on taxes:

To cut taxes or not?

With Republicans set to release details of their tax reform proposal next week, a plurality of Americans — 42 percent — believe that Congress should not cut taxes, while 24 percent want to cut individuals’ taxes and another 28 percent want to cut taxes for both individuals and businesses.

Notice anything weird in that paragraph? What about how they lead with the minority and divide the majority, to make it seem like less Americans want their taxes cut?

In other words 24+28 > 42.

Or put plainly:

52 percent want taxes cut for individuals, including 28 percent that also want it cut for businesses. That’s a majority of Americans! Yet they lead with 42 percent who don’t want their taxes cut and then split the rest, which happens to be the majority percentage. Do they think we can’t do math? Do they think we are stupid?

Look, they do it again in the very next paragraph:

Thirty-seven percent say U.S. businesses pay less than their fair share in taxes, 34 percent say they pay the right amount and 20 percent say they pay more than their fair share.

Translation: 54 percent believe that taxes on U.S. businesses should NOT be raised, while 37 percent want them to pay more.

AMAZING!

They actually do get it right in the last paragraph on taxes, but only because the minority percentage is so small it would look weird if they led with it:

And 55 percent of Americans say that they personally pay the right amount in taxes, while 40 percent say they pay more than their fair share. Only 4 percent say they pay less than their fair share.

You really can’t just glance at headlines and skim through poll analysis like this, or you’ll miss what the American people are really saying. The media is deceptive, especially when they have a Republican president they are hell-bent on defeating in the next election.


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