The Pew Research Center continued several years of polling looking at how Americans view the tax system with new data released Thursday. Republicans are now also much less likely to say the tax system is complex — long a Republican complaint about federal taxes. Before Trump took office, Republicans, like Democrats, were more likely to say that the tax system unfairly favored the powerful than that it was generally fair to most Americans. Wealthier Americans saw much bigger benefits from the Republican tax bill, something that wealthy Republicans seem to consider fair and that wealthy Democrats consider unfair — considerations that overlap with partisan positions. In other words, there were real political reasons to see shifts in how the tax system operates, independent of Trump.

Source: Washington Post April 04, 2019 19:30 UTC