Tax season has come and gone with no great outbreak of protest about the Affordable Care Act’s least popular provision: the individual mandate. … The muted reaction to the mandate also parallels almost exactly the reaction to a similar mandate in Massachusetts. Bay State residents accepted the mandate and did […] Read more »
Hillary Clinton Adopts Obama’s Middle Class, Fair Shot Positioning
Hillary Clinton has essentially adopted one of Barack Obama’s major policy thrusts in her nascent presidential campaign, identifying a large swath of the country’s population, assuming that this large group has the economic deck stacked against them, and then promising to help them gain economically in the future. CONT. Frank […] Read more »
More Americans Say Low-Income Earners Pay Too Much in Taxes
As Americans confront the yearly deadline to pay their federal income taxes, 45% of U.S. adults believe lower-income earners pay “too much.” This sentiment is up roughly five percentage points from recent years, but is still lower than a decade ago. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »
Perceptions of Tax Fairness Diverging by Income in U.S.
Americans’ perceptions of the fairness of their federal income taxes have diverged along income lines in recent years. From 2005 to 2008, roughly six in 10 Americans in each income group said what they paid in income taxes was fair. Since then, higher- and lower-income Americans have grown less likely […] Read more »
Fewer Americans Expect Tax Refund
With the deadline looming for Americans to file their tax returns, fewer residents who file taxes think they will get a refund compared with 2014. More than six in ten of those who wait until April 15th to file do not expect a refund. CONT. Marist Poll Read more »
5 facts on how Americans view taxes
Benjamin Franklin popularized the sentiment that nothing is certain “except death and taxes.” But the public isn’t too keen on the current federal tax system, with 59% saying there is so much wrong that Congress should completely change it (38% say it works pretty well and needs only minor changes). […] Read more »