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Congressman Sessions, you might want to rethink your “plan”

SHOT: Congressman Sessions is betting his job on the tax scam his party is ramming through Congress…

“Rep. Pete Sessions says he’ll keep his seat in Congress by highlighting the successes of the Republican Party, including the GOP tax plan that could be approved next week.”

[Dallas Morning News, 12/16/2017]

CHASER: Every piece of public opinion polling

Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll [Dec.8-11, 2017]

  • 64% of respondents oppose the Republican tax bill
  • 59% of voters oppose lowering the corporate tax rate

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

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