Monmouth University poll: The @GOP tax law is becoming less popular, not more; ONLY 34% approve

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I think many are waiting to see if they can get the tax tax IMHO




Kyle Griffin
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Approval of the Republican tax law has dropped 10 points since January. It’s now at just 34% approval.

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The Republican tax law is becoming less popular, not more



Six months in, the majority of voters are neutral to negative on the GOP tax cuts.
By Emily Stewart Jun 22, 2018, 10:30am EDT





House Speaker Paul Ryan speaks about the Republican tax bill days before its passage in December 2017. Mark Wilson/Getty Images

It’s been six months since President Donald Trump signed into law the Republican tax cuts. During that time, the measure appears to have become less popular — not more. The GOP’s big 2018 midterms sales pitch isn’t working out exactly how party leaders thought it would.

According to a Monmouth University poll released this week, just 34 percent of Americans said they approve of the Republican tax reform package, compared to 41 percent who disapprove. That’s down from April, when 40 percent of Americans said they approved of the law and 44 percent did not. In January, respondents were evenly split, with 44 percent saying they approved and another 44 percent voicing disapproval of the plan.

Public opinion on the tax law has “never been positive,” said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, in a statement accompanying the results, “but potentially growing uncertainty about how American taxpayers will be affected does not seem to be helping the GOP’s prospects in November.”

Broadly, most polling shows the tax law is more disliked than liked by Americans. A recent Quinnipiac poll found 39 percent of respondents approve of the legislation and 46 percent disapprove of it. An Economist/YouGov poll found a smaller but still negative margin, with 38 percent approving and 40 percent not.

A RealClearPolitics average of tax law polling indicates that about 36.1 percent of Americans are on board with the tax measure and 43 percent are not, a nearly 7 percentage point difference.



Americans seem kind of ambivalent about the tax law...................

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1. And of that 34%, I bet nine out of ten would be hurt by cutbacks enacted to "pay" for the bill

That's how it's always been with Republican voters, since Reagan anyway.

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2. Corporate stock buybacks are booming this year, thanks in part to the tax cuts.

no trickle down for you baby!


.............While ordinary Americans may not be feeling the law in their lives, corporate America and Wall Street certainly are: Corporate stock buybacks are booming this year, thanks in part to the tax cuts. Companies such as Apple, Cisco, Pepsi, Wells Fargo, and Harley-Davidson have announced major stock repurchase plans this year. And that’s not always translating into a positive impact on their workers: Wells Fargo has been laying off workers, and Harley-Davidson is closing its Kansas City plant.

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3. Wonder what ultimately led to it's unpopularity.

I'm guessing the everyday average Joe's realized it's not really helping them any. My hope is that the Democrats messaging about it broke through all the white noise and had a real impact.

[Trek4Truth]

4. Well that's what happens when you give people a tax cut they don't notice. I just can't

understand this strategy of hurting his own base.

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5. Funny thing is, that 34 percent approval is basically his entire base.

Which means among Democrats and independents, it's approval is virtually zero.

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6. really remarkable. shrub got away with it for a measly $300.

many people didn't even get that much, but democrats were kind enough to show the way for him and let him take credit.

there were stories at the time explaining about how the rich got a lexus while the rest of us got $300 or less, but for the most part america was happy to get the $300 and let him get away with the stupid and irresponsible tax cuts. kiss the clinton surplus goodbye.

but donnie and the gang were so greedy they couldn't even be bothered to pay off the little guy. for the most part, if you're not rich you got nothing.


worse, with shrub's tax cuts, we had a surplus, so people felt it was like a dividend of sorts, not something we'd have to pay for later. with donnie's tax cuts, we've already got huge deficits and he's purely adding to them, and there was hardly a cheer for the tax cut before they started talking about how we're going to have to cut things to pay for them.

and most people say, uh, pay for what, exactly?

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7. you really have to marvel at the incompetence it takes for republicans to botch a tax cut.

they've got the white house and both houses of congress and used reconciliation to completely bypass democrats.

and they still got themselves of political loser.


that's like missing a lay-up even with the help of a ladder.