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Poll: Americans Have Historically-High Positive Attitudes About Their Own Taxes
A new Gallup poll finds a surprising attitude among the American people regarding taxes, as we head towards April 15: Amazingly high satisfaction.
The question asked is: "Do you consider the amount of federal income tax you have to pay as too high, about right, or too low?" The numbers: About right 48%, too high 46%, and too low 3%.
This is the second-highest "about right" number since Gallup began asking this question over 50 years ago, beat out only by 50% in 2003, after successive rounds of Bush tax cuts. And since the early 1960s, this question has almost always shown a significant gap between "too high" on top and "about right" on the bottom.
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But but but... tea bagging, isnt there a huge uproar of tea baggers all around the United States, forming tea bagging rallies?
April 13, 2009 5:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
One lump or two with that tea?
April 13, 2009 5:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
51% of Americans must apologize to Rush Limbaugh immediately! Don't all of you call into his show at once, though -- you'll get a way long busy signal.
April 13, 2009 5:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think the reason many Americans are in the "about right" category is because they realize we have to pay an adequate amount of taxes to support the programs we expect our government to fund. I can not understand the "No new taxes" pledge that Republicans have advocated for so long. If we don't pay taxes, we don't have cops, firemen, decent schools, infrastructure, roads...the list goes on...I'm NO fan of George Will, but he wrote some time back in a column "We have a toxic aversion to taxing ourselves enough to pay our bills". And he has a good point. I repeat it often to my Republican friends, and point out who said it.
April 13, 2009 6:02 PM | Reply | Permalink