Chart of the Day: Tax Increases Still Popular

—By Siddhartha Mahanta

| Tue Sep. 20, 2011 7:00 AM PDT

Bruce Bartlett's roundup of 29 polls confirms your suspicions: Americans want higher taxes as part of a deal to reduce the deficit. Here's the chart: 

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