Two-thirds of Americans would vote against a state law that would increase the gas tax by up to 20 cents a gallon, with the revenue going toward improving roads and bridges and building more mass transit. Three in 10 Americans would vote for an increase in the gas tax in [...] Read more »
Fewer Americans Now View Their Income Taxes as Fair
This Tax Day, 55% of Americans regard the income taxes they have to pay as fair, the lowest percentage Gallup has measured since 2001. … The recent high in Americans’ perceptions that their taxes were fair, 64%, came in 2003, after President Bush signed tax cuts into law and weeks [...] Read more »
Monday is Tax Day – and if you’re confused, you’re not alone
You might believe that Monday is the American sociopath’s favorite day – Tax Day. Smart people have already done their taxes, while those who may have been too busy are struggling to ensure that Mr Tax Man doesn’t audit them. The truth about people hating the amount of money that [...] Read more »
A Third of Americans Say They Like Doing Their Income Taxes
As April 15 approaches, a majority of Americans (56%) have a negative reaction to doing their income taxes, with 26% saying they hate doing them. However, about a third (34%) say they either like (29%) or love (5%) doing their taxes. [cont.] Pew Read more »
With April 15 Looming, ‘Tis the Season to Duck
Death and taxes may be inevitable, but taxes, at least, can withstand a little finessing – with broad public approval. Less than a week from the federal income tax deadline, Americans overwhelmingly support taxpayers doing whatever they can – within the law, that is – to trim what they owe [...] Read more »
80% of Americans unhappy with Washington
Amid the debate over the federal budget and the failure to come to an agreement to avoid the sequester, eight in 10 Americans are unhappy with how things are going in Washington, including 30 percent who are angry, up nine points since December and the highest level of anger recorded [...] Read more »
Obama Has Lost Advantage Over G.O.P. on Economy
During the debate over the so-called fiscal cliff in December, public opinion surveys showed more Americans trusted President Obama than trusted Republicans in Congress when it came to handling the nation’s economy. … But with more budget battles approaching, over raising the nation’s borrowing limit and perhaps reaching a grand [...] Read more »
Americans Widely Back Government Job Creation Proposals
Americans widely support each of three job creation proposals, including offering tax breaks to businesses that create jobs in the U.S. and a program that would put people to work on urgent infrastructure repair projects. Support for these programs is only slightly lower in a variant of the question that [...] Read more »
GOP Doubles Down on Ryan to Change the Narrative
In what can only be regarded as an interesting gamble, Wisconsin Rep. Paul D. Ryan and House Republicans this week are proposing an economic agenda oddly similar to the one they have been offering for the past two years. … Whatever you think of the proposal as a policy document, [...] Read more »
People agree the sequester is bad. They don’t agree on how to fix it.
Big majorities of Democrats, Republicans and independents believe that the sequester will hurt the economy and the military. But a newly released Washington Post-ABC News poll reveals that no proposed solutions to the sequester (of five tested) rallies majority support across party lines. That’s the conundrum facing Obama and Congress [...] Read more »