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After promising that his stimulus would stem unemployment at 8% (it failed), that government-run health care will reduce costs (they’ll rise) and that his financial reform plan would end too-big-to-fail (hardly), Americans are rightly concerned that there is a growing credibility gap between Obama’s lofty promises and the disastrous  results. So, when asked about the President’s Deficit Commission, voters are no fools – they see it as a clear backdoor to raising taxes to pay for more bloated government binge spending. A Rasmussen poll conducted this week shows that Americans are wise to Obama’s Show-Me-The-VAT Commission:

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 51% of Adults believe the commission is more likely to propose tax increases than spending cuts. Just 22% say the commission is more likely to call for spending cuts instead. . . Only 30% think Congress is at least somewhat likely to actually make the spending cuts the deficit commission proposes, while 62% say Congress is unlikely to do so. . . On the other hand, 78% think it’s at least somewhat likely that Congress will raise taxes if the commission proposes any tax hikes, including 53% who say the legislators are very likely to do so.

And when it comes to all the revenue that the Deficit Commission’s recommendations would generate, Americans know what Democrats would do with it.

Even if the president and Congress raise taxes to reduce the federal deficit, 58% of voters think they are more likely to spend the money on new government programs.

With the President continuing his attempts to hoodwink the American people, maybe it’s time he listens to President Lincoln. “You cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”