Poll: 48 percent approve of Trump's tax proposal
Source: Politico
By STEVEN SHEPARD 10/04/2017 05:49 AM EDT
Voters are receptive to President Donald Trump’s proposed tax overhaul, with nearly half of those who have heard about the plan supporting it, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.
But as Congress begins to draft tax legislation, the poll also shows that some elements of the outline released by the Trump administration last week are more popular than others. And voters are skeptical they will benefit from any changes to the tax code.
Overall, the 48 percent of voters familiar with the plan who support it is greater than the 37 percent who oppose it. Fifteen percent have no opinion about the proposal.
For now, the partisan split favors the GOP. More than three-quarters of Republicans, 78 percent, approve of the tax plan, while a smaller share of Democratic voters, 65 percent, disapprove. Independent voters are split: 38 percent approve, and 38 percent disapprove.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/04/trump-tax-proposal-polling-243426
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all most people have heard, if anything, is that donnie is proposing a tax "cut" (or tax "reform", which people hear as code for "cut"
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when more people hear that nearly all the cut is for extremely rich people, more people will oppose it.
They only call landlines - which means mostly old people, probably home owners, most likely white. They call during dinner time because people are home them. Well who answers the phone during dinner? I surely don't. But old people eat dinner at 4 o'clock so 6:30 is almost night-time to them. They never miss answering the phone, it might be the grandkids.
Old people are more likely to be conservative (not necessarily Republican) and less likely to be aware of current events issues. The pollsters can frame the questions in a way that elicits the response they're looking for, and the old person on the interview doesn't even get it. They're being steered into giving the exact answer that fits the pollsters' narrative.
These polls are mostly a meaningless crock, unless they give us the parameters and they hardly ever do.
How many times does this country have to get fucked over to not ask for it?
that to make up the short fall, they will want to cut your money that you put into the system to offset this BS, and everyone of those individuals living in Florida, Arizona,even though you don't get hit as hard on the federal side, or on the state side, that money will still not make up that short fall......................this country is f*cked
Totally f*cked, individuals and corporations that are not paying there share, are just laughing all the way to the off shore bank
A country cannot do anything without revenue in it's treasury, that is a simple fact, and this "flat tax" BS will not sustain, this country
disability, I guess. The GOP has NEVER put money in everyday, working-retired peoples pockets...it's been shown the top 1% will gain the most from this plan...in millions-billions of dollars overall, yet this poll says americans favor that????
There is no such thing as trickle down unless ...well our potus ...well...
Sounds like as as soon as many 'Muricans hear "tax cut" they are all for it, details or actual impact be dammed.
And the GOPee propagandizers and opinion manipulators are well aware of that fact.
