Just lately launched polling from Navigator Analysis exhibits that many citizens haven’t heard a lot about Donald Trump’s upcoming tax plans, which embody extending his 2017 tax cuts for the wealthy. These tax cuts are largely set to run out on the finish of 2025.
Fifty % of registered voters stated they’ve heard “a little” or “nothing” about Trump’s tax plan, in response to Navigator’s polling, which was fielded Dec. 5-8. One other 50% stated they’ve heard “a lot” or “some” concerning the plan.
When requested about their assist for the plan—with out being offered an outline of it—voters cut up predictably down celebration strains, with 37% in favor of it and 39% opposed. A couple of quarter (24%) weren’t positive.
Nevertheless, assist adjustments dramatically primarily based on how the plan is offered.
When offered with a Democratic framing of the plan—primarily, “tax cuts for the rich”—62% of voters opposed the plan, with solely 25% supporting it. However when offered with a Republican framing—that the cuts will “lower taxes for everyone and unleash American business to improve our economy and bring down costs”—assist flipped: 64% had been in favor and 24% had been opposed.
Such Republican messaging is fantasy, after all. The 2017 tax cuts didn’t ship on these guarantees the primary time round, skewing its advantages to the rich. And the cuts had been unpopular across the time of their passage in addition to later in his time period.
Possibly extra revealing is that Democratic messaging is more practical than Republican messaging when it focuses on the non-public affect of the tax cuts.
Trump’s billionaire pals will profit essentially the most from tax giveaways. Billionaire Elon Musk, set to co-lead a toothless advisory fee on slicing authorities spending, has proven a willingness to make use of his social media platform X to distort data in Trump’s favor. And different billionaires, like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, appear simply as prepared.
And that’s earlier than they’re supplied billions extra in authorities welfare.
