Most Americans say President Donald Trump’s tax plan would benefit the wealthy and corporations, and less than half believe his message that “massive tax cuts” would help middle-class workers, according to an Associated Press-NORC poll. CONT. Ken Thomas & Emily Swanson, Associated Press Read more »
Most Americans oppose Trump’s tax reform plan
A slim majority of Americans (52%) oppose President Donald Trump’s recent tax reform proposals, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, while only one-third (34%) say they support the Trump plan. CONT. Ryan Struyk, CNN Read more »
The Politics Of Tax Reform: 101
President Trump and congressional Republicans are ramping up their push to pass tax reform. What, exactly, “reform” means is still an open question; as my colleague Perry Bacon Jr. has detailed, different Republican factions put a higher priority on different elements of a possible bill. There are divides, for instance, […] Read more »
Americans feel tax reform plans would favor wealthy
The latest CBS News Nation Tracker finds that most Americans continue to call for deals and cooperation in the back-and-forth between the president and Congress. And that includes many of the president’s strongest backers and most Republicans. Some even want to see Congress assert itself more. Most do not want […] Read more »
Can Tax Reform Really Save the Republican Regulars in 2018?
… The repeated defeat of health care legislation has only raised the perceived stakes for the passage of a major tax initiative. “Republican leaders are making no attempt to mask their fear,” reported the New York Times on Thursday, “predicting that failure to pass a tax overhaul in the coming […] Read more »
Most Americans are in the dark about their tax bill, but think Trump’s plan won’t help
Most Americans don’t know much about President Donald Trump’s new tax proposal but don’t think it will be in their favor. That’s the conclusion of polls run by CNBC since the GOP unveiled the framework for a tax reform bill in late September. Responses to this week’s CNBC All-America Economic […] Read more »