Posted on 01/15/2019 6:03:03 PM PST by TigerClaws
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and her Republican critics have both called her proposal to dramatically increase America's highest tax rate "radical" but a new poll released Tuesday indicates that a majority of Americans agrees with the idea.
In the latest The Hill-HarrisX survey — conducted Jan. 12 and 13 after the newly elected congresswoman called for the U.S. to raise its highest tax rate to 70 percent — a sizable majority of registered voters, 59 percent, supports the concept.
Ocasio-Cortez has not introduced any legislation to enact the concept but the survey shows a broad cross-section of Americans supports it, at least presently.
Women support the idea by a 62-38 percent margin. A majority of men back it as well, 55 percent to 45 percent. The proposal is popular in all regions of the country with a majority of Southerners backing it by a 57 to 43 percent margin. Rural voters back it as well, 56 percent to 44 percent.
Increasing the highest tax bracket to 70 percent garners a surprising amount of support among Republican voters. In the Hill-HarrisX poll, 45 percent of GOP voters say they favor it while 55 percent are opposed to it.
Independent voters who were contacted backed the tax idea by a 60 to 40 percent margin while Democratic ones favored it, 71 percent to 29 percent.
Ocasio-Cortez is among a group of progressive legislators which includes Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) who have called for increasing federal income tax rates on wealthier Americans. The New York Democrat kicked off a debate within her party in a Jan. 6 interview with "60 Minutes" during which she said she would support setting the highest tax, which she said would kick in at individuals 10 millionth dollar of income, at 70 percent.
In her comments to the CBS show, Ocasio-Cortez referenced tax rates that had once been in place during the mid-20th century. During the 1950s and 60s, the wealthiest Americans were once taxed at a rate in excess of 90 percent.
"That doesn't mean all $10 million are taxed at an extremely high rate, but it means that as you climb up this ladder you should be contributing more," she said.
The proposal has been met with both criticism and acceptance within the Democratic party. Republicans and conservative commentators have been universally critical, some incorrectly implying that the congresswoman wants to tax all income of the richest Americans at 70 percent.
The latest Hill-HarrisX poll was conducted online among a demographically representative sample of registered voters and has a sampling margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
Too bad we didn’t know about it and could have FReeped it.
Here comes the war of the fake polls. The Left is throwing the all the sh** they can against the wall to see if anything sticks. Reminds me of monkeys.
Tagline, the reason we have a Constitutional Republic instead of a Direct Democracy. Or we did...
Why work hard and build something if the Government can just confiscate it on a Bartender’s whim?
It is a fact that the middle class will bear the major part of the tax burden. The big rich have tax shelters and off shore accounts to keep their money away from the Federal treasury. The Tom Steyers and George Soros are laughing their way to the bank.
This is why I am (seriously) in favor of switching to an imperial form of government. That worked well for the Romans after their republic was corrupted. That might be the only way to preserve our culture and national identity.
Emperor Trump has a nice ring to it.
Punish the rich! Yea! /s Brilliant!
Horse shite
Horse shite
If you are going to rob Peter to pay Paul, you can count on Paul’s support.
yep
Whoa. That’s not right. If the poll isn’t terribly skewed, public education should be shut down.
On second thought, yes, public education should be shut down anyway.
Ah, you’ve just described Illinois nicely, and the new governor is going to double down on it, thereby accelerating the impending disaster.
Yes. I was looking at the 2018 Federal Income Tax forms yesterday - the 1040 itself is “simpler” (sort of) but now up to 6 additional “schedules” (in addition to the old ones) may apply. Great...
The (up to) 20% small business deduction is much appreciated, but other than that, what is needed is tax code complexity reduced by about 25% each year. (Like I think that will actually happen? Hah!!)
Thanks TigerClaws.
If they ever got it approved it still wouldn’t be considered “fair share”....
I wonder how they would vote if they knew how much their own taxes would be going up....zero mention of that....
This the result of our screwed up educational system. This could well be the beginning of the endgame.
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