Today, House and Senate Republicans reached a preliminary deal to hold hands and walk the plank together on a historically unpopular Tax Scam that is facing fierce local backlash across the country.
Despite massive problems with both the House and Senate versions, the backdoor negotiations yielded no meaningful fixes. The bill still includes tax hikes for middle class Americans, massive giveaways to corporations and the wealthy, and a repeal of a crucial part of the Affordable Care Act that will cause premiums to skyrocket. To make matters worse, this Tax Scam continues to set the stage for cuts to Medicare and Social Security because of the massive increase to the national debt that the bill creates.
“Vulnerable House Republicans are now going to have to walk the plank on an even worse version of the Republican Tax Scam,” said DCCC spokesperson Tyler Law. “Not only will middle class families see tax hikes while corporations and the wealthy get tax breaks, now Speaker Ryan’s imperiled majority will be voting in support of skyrocketing healthcare premiums. With polls showing that the GOP Tax Scam is widely and increasingly unpopular, this bill will be a huge political liability for Speaker Ryan and House Republicans in 2018.”
A look at the most recent public polling:
USA Today/Suffolk University [Dec. 5-9, 2017]
- Just 32% of Americans support to GOP tax plan
- 53% of Americans predict their own families won’t pay lower taxes as a result of the measure
- 64% of those surveyed say the wealthy will get the most benefits
- The GOP tax plan has the lowest level of public support for any major piece of legislation enacted in the past three decades
Marist Poll [Dec. 4-7, 2017]
- 52% of Americans, including 22% of Republicans and 20% of Trump supporters, think the GOP tax legislation mostly hurt their personal family finances
- 60% of Americans who earn less than $50,000 annually say the legislation will mostly harm them
- 63% of U.S. residents disapprove of the congressional GOP’s approach to tax reform
Quinnipiac Poll [Nov. 29-Dec. 4, 2017]
- 64% of American voters say the Republican tax plan benefits the wealthy the most, compared to only 24% that say it benefits the middle class
- A plurality of voters (41%) say the plan will increase their taxes
- Voters ay 61%-34% that the tax plan favors the rich at the expense of the middle class
- Voters say by an 8-point margin that Democrats can do a better job handling taxes
Gallup [Dec.1-2, 2017]
- Only 29% of U.S. adults approve of the proposed changes to the federal tax code
- Majority of independents (56%) join 87% of Democrats in opposing tax plan
Reuters/Ipsos [Nov. 23-27, 2017]
- Only 29% of participants support the Republican tax plan
- Only 6% think the middle class stands to benefit the most from the tax plan, only 14% think ‘”All Americans’ will
Politico/Morning Consult [Nov. 21-25, 2017]
- Republican support of the House GOP Bill dropped from 66% to 59%
- Only 36% of registered voters support the House Bill
Quinnipiac Poll [Nov. 7-13, 2017]
- Only 25% of respondents approve of the Republican tax plan
- 59% of Americans said the GOP effort favors the rich at the expense of the middle class, only 33% disagreed with this sentiment
- A majority of Americans, 52%, do not believe that the GOP effort will lead to more jobs and better growth
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll [Nov. 8-13, 2017]
- 68% of the public oppose eliminating the tax deduction for individuals who have high health care costs
- More than four in ten (44%) think eliminating this tax deduction would affect them and their families
Politico/Morning Consult [Nov. 9-11, 2017]
- 56% of Americans believe that Trump will benefit personally from changes to the tax code, if enacted
- Only 29% of American think that they and their families will benefit from the plan