A Middle-Class Tax Cut? Americans Aren’t Buying It

  • 6 years ago
A Middle-Class Tax Cut? Americans Aren’t Buying It
If the current tax reform proposal is passed into law, the U. S. federal deficit will be
In the SurveyMonkey poll, Ms. Brescher, 34, said she did not expect a tax cut under the bill.
In the latest poll, only 29 percent of respondents said they felt
that the plan would lead to substantially higher economic output a decade from now, and only 18 percent believed Republican assertions that the bill would not add to the federal deficit.
But Ms. Kelly, 54, said she doubted that the bill would cut taxes for her or other middle-class Americans.
“I have such a strong distrust of the president.”
The SurveyMonkey poll, taken before the final tax bill was out, found
that 58 percent of Americans disapproved of the bill, while only 37 percent supported it.
(Even two-thirds of Republicans said either that the bill would increase the deficit over the next decade or that they weren’t sure.)

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