{"id":3350,"date":"2007-05-06T04:41:17","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T12:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/06\/positive-trends-americans-are-more-progressive-than-we-think-we-are\/"},"modified":"2007-05-06T04:41:17","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T12:01:05","slug":"positive-trends-americans-are-more-progressive-than-we-think-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3350","title":{"rendered":"Positive Trends: Americans Are More Progressive Than We Think We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/2007\/04\/opinion_poverty.html\">Ruy Teixeira<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/ezraklein.typepad.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/your_world_in_c.html\">Ezra<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/poverty_poll_1.jpg' alt='poverty_poll_1.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>Given that virtually no important politician in America would dare support a guaranteed basic income in public, it&#8217;s interesting that most Americans favor a guaranteed basic income of some sort.<\/p>\n<p>And let me add this chart:<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/health_care_taxes_poll.png' alt='health_care_taxes_poll.png' \/><\/p>\n<p>Although liberals are more in favor of universal health care than conservatives, there&#8217;s significant support for universal health care even among Republicans. <a href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/reports\/display.php3?ReportID=190\">According to the Pew Research Center<\/a>, 50% of Republicans favor repealing most of the recent tax cuts in exchange for universal health care, and 60% of Republicans say they&#8217;d support a tax increase in exchange for universal health care. What&#8217;s frustrating is that in both parties, the leadership is less in favor of universal health care than the base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Ruy Teixeira, via Ezra: Given that virtually no important politician in America would dare support a guaranteed basic income in public, it&#8217;s interesting that most Americans favor a guaranteed basic income of some sort. And let me add this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3350\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-poverty-labor-related-issues","category-economics-and-the-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}