{"id":22260,"date":"2015-01-23T11:44:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T16:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22260"},"modified":"2015-01-23T11:44:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T16:44:12","slug":"gallup-satisfaction-with-federal-taxes-falls-to-12-year-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22260\/gallup-satisfaction-with-federal-taxes-falls-to-12-year-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallup:  Satisfaction with Federal Taxes Falls to 12-Year Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid Barack Obama&#8217;s latest campaign to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ryanellis\/2015\/01\/19\/obamas-new-state-of-the-union-tax-hike-on-middle-class-529-college-savers\/\" target=\"_blank\">increase taxes<\/a>, Gallup offers some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/181241\/americans-satisfaction-federal-taxes-low-side.aspx?utm_source=alert&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=morelink&amp;utm_campaign=syndication\" target=\"_blank\">welcome news<\/a> this morning. \u00a0Specifically, Americans&#8217; satisfaction with the amount we pay in federal taxes has now fallen to a 12-year low:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Americans&#8217; satisfaction with the amount that Americans pay in federal income taxes roughly ties the lowest percentage Gallup has seen in the past 12 years&#8230; \u00a0According to the January 5-8 poll, 63% of Americans this year are dissatisfied with the amount Americans pay in taxes. \u00a0In a follow-up question, most of this group &#8211; equivalent to 46% of all Americans &#8211; say they would like to see Americans pay less in taxes. \u00a0Hardly any &#8211; 4% &#8211; would prefer that they pay more. \u00a0An additional 13% are dissatisfied with what Americans pay in taxes, but aren&#8217;t specific about how it should change. \u00a0The 46% who currently want taxes decreased is notably higher than what Gallup has found since 2012.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Moreover, the latest survey confirms Obama&#8217;s trademark reverse-Midas touch, as his desire to raise taxes appears to have only backfired:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Six years into Barack Obama&#8217;s presidency, public satisfaction with taxes is at a low ebb, and nearly half of all Americans are dissatisfied and would like to see the amount people pay decreased.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Accordingly, conservatives and libertarians continue to win the war of ideas in this regard. \u00a0It&#8217;s now a matter of the new Congress internalizing public opinion, and putting a quick halt to Obama&#8217;s scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid Barack Obama&#8217;s latest campaign to increase taxes, Gallup offers some welcome news this morning. \u00a0Specifically, Americans&#8217; satisfaction with the amount we pay in federal taxes has now fallen to a 12-year low: Americans&#8217; satisfaction with the amount that Americans pay in federal income taxes roughly ties the lowest percentage Gallup has seen in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,71],"class_list":["post-22260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-obama","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22261,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22260\/revisions\/22261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}