It may not exactly be breaking news, but it turns out that people would rather have a job than a tax hike. In fact, it turns out, people would rather have a job than voting for tax hikes on other people. It also turns out that even limousine liberals — […] Read more »
Many Republican voters agree with Biden — ‘trickle-down economics’ has failed
A majority of Americans support measures favored by President Joe Biden to substantially redistribute U.S. wealth, according to an Ipsos poll for Reuters released on Thursday, including tax hikes on the wealthy and a higher minimum wage. The national opinion poll also found that Republican voters were divided over the […] Read more »
Government’s Role in Controlling Incomes
This may come as no great surprise, but income matters. As my colleague Megan Brenan recently demonstrated, income is positively related to people’s satisfaction with various life situations Gallup routinely assesses — including not only standard of living and housing, but also such things as the community Americans live in […] Read more »
Fixing Inequality: More Opportunity is Not the Answer
Now that the decades of rapidly rising economic inequality have become evident to all, the center of public debate has shifted toward the question of what, if anything, can be done to reverse the trend. … Polls show that most Americans, even many rank-and-file Republicans, dislike growing inequality and endorse, […] Read more »
Citizens feel disconnected from government. If they knew what government did for them, they wouldn’t.
Suzanne Mettler is the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions in the department of government at Cornell University. She is also the author of a new book, “The Government-Citizen Disconnect,” which argues that citizens are often unaware of the benefits they receive from the government. I spoke to her […] Read more »
Robbing Blue States to Pay Red
Much of the debate over the Republican House and Senate tax plans has centered on how they will shift income toward the affluent. But there is a second kind of redistribution in the plans — from Democratic blue states to Republican red states. Call it the Republican two-step: redistribute upward, […] Read more »