Working-Class Whites Want Higher Taxes On The Rich, Study Finds
Working-class white voters will prove tricky to court this election cycle, as a new study reveals the key demographic's often conflicting views on the economy and government.
A majority of working-class white Americans believe the U.S. economic system unfairly favors the wealthy, but even more of them are cautious of government assistance programs, according to a new report by the Public Religion Research Institute. The report also found 62 percent of working-class whites support raising the tax rate on Americans with household incomes of more than $1 million per year. Sixty-one percent, however, believe that the federal government should lower taxes and provide fewer services.
Those contradictions are part of why working-class whites remain a contested and key demographic in the presidential contest, courted by both Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama.
The Public Religion Research Institute's findings could present a rude awakening for Romney, who has proposed tax cuts that would disproportionately benefit wealthier Americans.
Public Religion Research Institute? That's surely a lefty organization... :Whistle Well, it looks like even the "angry white guy" constituency is not a shoo-in for Money-Boo-Boo this time....
Hey, Boehner...GOTP... Jus' keep doin' what yer doin'.....
Watch for a flurry of arrests and prosecutions of the Wall-Street criminal swine that took down the market for their own greed. That's what OWS was all about.
Working-Class Whites Want Higher Taxes On The Rich, Study Finds
Working-class white voters will prove tricky to court this election cycle, as a new study reveals the key demographic's often conflicting views on the economy and government.
A majority of working-class white Americans believe the U.S. economic system unfairly favors the wealthy, but even more of them are cautious of government assistance programs, according to a new report by the Public Religion Research Institute. The report also found 62 percent of working-class whites support raising the tax rate on Americans with household incomes of more than $1 million per year. Sixty-one percent, however, believe that the federal government should lower taxes and provide fewer services.
Those contradictions are part of why working-class whites remain a contested and key demographic in the presidential contest, courted by both Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama.
The Public Religion Research Institute's findings could present a rude awakening for Romney, who has proposed tax cuts that would disproportionately benefit wealthier Americans.
Public Religion Research Institute? That's surely a lefty organization... :Whistle Well, it looks like even the "angry white guy" constituency is not a shoo-in for Money-Boo-Boo this time....
Hey, Boehner...GOTP... Jus' keep doin' what yer doin'.....
You forgot to bold and underline this part...
Sixty-one percent, however, believe that the federal government should lower taxes and provide fewer services.
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
"(Reuters) - Democrat Tim Kaine handed his Republican rival George Allen a gift in their closely watched Virginia Senate race on Thursday, when he said unexpectedly he would be "open" to a plan to force all Americans to pay some level of federal income taxes."
