A Middle-Class Tax Cut? Americans Aren’t Buying It<br />If the current tax reform proposal is passed into law, the U. S. federal deficit will be<br />In the SurveyMonkey poll, Ms. Brescher, 34, said she did not expect a tax cut under the bill.<br />In the latest poll, only 29 percent of respondents said they felt<br />that the plan would lead to substantially higher economic output a decade from now, and only 18 percent believed Republican assertions that the bill would not add to the federal deficit.<br />But Ms. Kelly, 54, said she doubted that the bill would cut taxes for her or other middle-class Americans.<br />“I have such a strong distrust of the president.”<br />The SurveyMonkey poll, taken before the final tax bill was out, found<br />that 58 percent of Americans disapproved of the bill, while only 37 percent supported it.<br />(Even two-thirds of Republicans said either that the bill would increase the deficit over the next decade or that they weren’t sure.)
