IBOPE Inteligência Poll: 51% Disapprove of Cain's 9-9-9 Tax Plan & 48% Believe It Would Raise Their Taxes
63% of Republicans Approve, but are Split on Personal Tax Impact
UTICA, NY--A small majority of likely voters disapproves of Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain's "9-9-9" tax reform plan, and 48% believe it would increase the total amount of taxes they pay.
The IBOPE Inteligência interactive poll conducted from Oct. 18-21 shows Cain's plan to be much more popular with Republican voters, with 63% approving of Cain's proposal to set both personal and business tax rates at 9% and to add a 9% national sales tax. However, Republicans are split as to how the plan would impact them, with 34% believing it would reduce their total taxes and 32% thinking their taxes would increase.
Independent voters are more likely to disapprove of the "9-9-9" plan, than approve (49%-43%), but believe it would raise their total taxes by a significant margin (49%-20%). Democrats both overwhelmingly disapprove of the proposal (73%) and believe they would pay more in taxes (76%).
Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain is proposing a change in the federal tax code to replace current personal income and business tax rates with a flat 9% rate on both, and to also have a 9% national sales tax. Do you approve or disapprove of this plan Cain calls "9-9-9"?
|
Response |
All voters |
Republicans |
Democrats |
Independents |
|
Approve |
39% |
63% |
14% |
43% |
|
Disapprove |
51% |
30% |
73% |
49% |
|
Not sure |
10% |
7% |
14% |
7% |
Do you believe the total amount you pay in taxes would increase, decrease or remain the same under Cain's "9-9-9" plan?
|
Response |
All voters |
Republicans |
Democrats |
Independents |
|
Increase |
48% |
32% |
63% |
49% |
|
Decrease |
20% |
34% |
8% |
20% |
|
Remain the same |
15% |
19% |
10% |
16% |
|
Not sure |
17% |
14% |
19% |
15% |
IBOPE Inteligência conducted an online survey of 2,067 voters. A sampling of IBOPE Inteligência International's online panel, which is representative of the adult population of the U.S., was invited to participate. Slight weights were added to region, party, age, race, religion, gender and education to more accurately reflect the population. The margin of error is +/- 2.2 percentage points. Margins of error are higher in sub-groups. The MOE calculation is for sampling error only.
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