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4/16/2017 12:52:50 PM

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Trump wants to give the rich a big tax cut. Here’s what his supporters want.
By Max Ehrenfreund April 14

President Trump and his GOP allies are planning on handing out trillions of dollars in tax cuts. It's one of a few major goals for Republicans now that they have control in Washington.

Yet a new poll suggests that ordinary Republican voters lack enthusiasm for broad tax relief, and might even object to current plans to reduce taxes on corporations and the wealthy. Although the GOP plans might address other concerns that Republicans shared with pollsters about taxes in America, the results suggest that more Republicans want to see an increase in taxes for the rich than want to see their own taxes reduced.

More Republicans say they pay about the right amount in taxes than complain about paying more than their fair share, according to the poll published Friday by the Pew Research Center. Meanwhile, large groups of Republican voters say they were already upset by the fact that some corporations and rich households pay too little.

Last year, Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), the speaker of the House, and his GOP colleagues put forward a proposal for tax relief that would primarily benefit the well-off. After a decade, 99.6 percent of the savings under the plan would accrue to the richest 1 percent of households, according to an analysis from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

In the Pew poll, however, 40 percent of Republicans said they were bothered "a lot" by the fact that some wealthy Americans do not pay their fair share of taxes.

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