A record number of American voters think they pay too much in taxes. In addition, they think government is more often the source of America’s troubles — not the means of fixing them. CONT. Dana Blanton, Fox News Read more »
Climate Change, Tax Pledge Among Issues to Watch for 2016
Two issue positions show potential to carry unexpected clout in the 2016 presidential election — support for action to address climate change and opposition to a no-tax pledge, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds. Openness to political compromise also has the support, and the priority, to carry weight in […] Read more »
Support for the Affordable Care Act Breaks Down Along Racial Lines
Race remains an impenetrable dividing line in attitudes about the Affordable Care Act five years after President Obama signed it into law. With Obama celebrating the law’s fifth anniversary last week—and House and Senate Republicans marking the occasion by voting again to repeal it—polls show that whites remain much more […] Read more »
High-income Americans pay most income taxes, but enough to be ‘fair’?
Americans don’t much like the federal tax system, a recent Pew Research Center report finds. But it’s not, as you might imagine, because they think they pay too much. Rather, they think people other than themselves don’t pay their fair share. CONT. Drew DeSilver, Pew Read more »
Federal Tax System Seen in Need of Overhaul
The public sees the nation’s tax system as deeply flawed: 59% say “there is so much wrong with the federal tax system that Congress should completely change it.” Just 38% think the system “works pretty well” and requires “only minor changes.” These opinions have changed little since 2011. With the […] Read more »
Establishment Populism Rising
Larry Summers, who withdrew his candidacy for the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve under pressure from the liberal wing of the Democratic Party in 2013, has emerged as the party’s dominant economic policy strategist. The former Treasury secretary’s evolving message has won over many of his former critics. Summers’s ascendance […] Read more »