As the congressional debate over President Donald Trump’s tax overhaul begins, more Americans say tax rates on corporations and higher-income households should be raised rather than lowered. CONT. Hannah Fingerhut, Pew Read more »
Who thinks businesses pay too much in taxes? Wealthy Trump supporters.
President Trump always wanted to move faster on tax reform. Early in his presidency, he expressed frustration at having to spend time on trying to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, promising his supporters at one point that, once health care was out of the way, they could move on to […] Read more »
CNN poll: Most want major changes to the tax system
As Congress turns its attention away from health care and back toward tax reform and other issues, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds most in favor of major changes to the nation’s tax laws, but wary of President Donald Trump’s handling of immigration. CONT. Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Read more »
Two-thirds say large corporations pay too little in federal taxes
Cutting corporate taxes looks like a hard sell for Donald Trump and Republican Party leaders — a new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that 65 percent of Americans feel large corporations pay too little in taxes. Given what the public knows about it, they opposes Trump’s tax plan by 44-28 […] Read more »
Economic Research Findings: Persuadable and Democratic Drop-off Voters
New research conducted on behalf of Priorities USA among key groups of persuadable voters and mobilization targets shows that there is a broad and growing identification of Donald Trump as someone who looks out first and foremost for the wealthy at a time when the economic situation for the middle […] Read more »
Among White Americans, Limits to Empathy for Poverty-Related Issues Run Along Class Lines
A survey released today by PRRI finds that white Americans’ support for policies to address poverty is limited in different ways by education level—by perceived social distance to racial minorities among non-college-educated whites and by lower commitments to equal opportunity among college-educated whites. The survey was conducted by PRRI, a […] Read more »