IRREVERENT News

WASHINGTON - Following last week's second presidential debate, a new IRREVERENT/MILF Jugs Magazine poll reports that 63% of all Americans believe that a "high" Federal income tax rate is the "most important issue facing the United States," especially dominant among those who don't pay them.

The poll asked 1,566 randomly selected Americans to choose among several options which one was the most important issue facing the United States over the next four years.  The results are summarized below:

63% - High federal income tax rates
7% - International terrorism
10% - Domestic terrorism
7% - Low job growth
3% - Energy dependence on foreign nations
25% - Dealing with another Kim Kardashian, Kanye West sex tape

The extra 15% in the poll reflect respondents who selected both a policy issue and the terrifying possibility of another "accidentally leaked" Kardashian sex tape.

Of the 63% of all respondents who selected "high federal taxes" as the most important issue, 92% admitted they were part of the 47% not paying any.

"The poll isn't particularly surprising," noted Harriet Ballast, a public policy pollster from the firm of Polluck-Pollos-Pelican.  "It clearly reflects what the majority of Americans feel: they hate the taxes they don't pay as much as the millionaires who do."

"It's a shining testament to a culture created by public relations," said Miles Jarvic, a political commentator and host of CNBC's "Political Lunatics."  "People are voting on the hope they'll strike it rich. It's a staggering P.R. accomplishment to convince people to vote now on some statistically remote future possibility."

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nuclear plant by Flickr/ibanaan, homeless man by Flickr/Franco Folini,
Sikh temple shooting by Flickr/Henry Gass