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Tax Poll: Public Support Dwindles for Raising Taxes to Reduce Deficit

Paul Caron

A recent Pew Research Center for the People & the Press survey conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International reports dwindling public support for raising taxes to reduce the federal budget deficit:

Would you favor or oppose raising taxes as a way to reduce the budget deficit?

Favor

Oppose

Not Sure

October 2005

26%

70%

4%

March 2005

31%

66%

3%

N = 1,500 adults nationwide; MoE +/- 3

(Thanks to Ben Cunningham for the tip.)

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Paul Caron
Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law on June 1, 2017. Dean Caron joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 after serving as the Dorothy and Leonard Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in the spring semesters of 2010 through 2013. He served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Pepperdine in 2015-2017. Before coming to Pepperdine, he was Associate Dean of Faculty and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
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