November 8- 10, 2011: McClatchy/Marist Poll—Nationwide poll on whether low-income people should pay in taxes.
Do you think people who are poor, and earnbelow a certain income, should be required to pay taxes on what they earn orshould they be exempt from paying income taxes?
60% Yes
37% No
3% Don۪t know/Refused
Methodology: Conducted by Marist CollegeInstitute for Public Opinion, November 8 – November 10, 2011 and based on 1,026telephone interviews. Sample: National adult. Interviews were conducted bylandline and cell phones. [USMARIST.111811M.R13]
FormalCitation
McClatchy/Marist Poll, Nov, 2011. RetrievedDec-8-2011 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public OpinionResearch, University of Connecticut.http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html
(A flat rate tax system applies one tax rateto all income. Under a flat rate tax system, do you think each of the followingwould pay higher taxes, lower taxes, or about the same amount of taxes as theypay now?)…The poor
52% Higher taxes
18% Lower taxes
25% Same amount of taxes
5% Unsure
Methodology: Conducted by Marist CollegeInstitute for Public Opinion, November 8 – November 10, 2011 and based on 1,026telephone interviews. Sample: National adult. Interviews were conducted bylandline and cell phones. [USMARIST.111811M.R12]
FormalCitation
McClatchy/Marist Poll, Nov, 2011. RetrievedDec-8-2011 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public OpinionResearch, University of Connecticut.http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html