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Excerpted from “Poll: Most Tea Party Supporters Say Their Taxes Are Fair” Posted by Stephanie Condon, CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto, “Political Hotsheet,” CBS News, April 14, 2010 2:00 PM
[SIZE="+2"]A[/SIZE]s Tea Partiers gather for today's rally in Boston, home of the original Tea Party protest in 1773, 42 percent of Tea Party supporters think the amount of income taxes they'll pay this year is unfair, according to a new CBS News/ New York Times poll.
Yet while some say the Tea Party stands for "Taxed Enough Already," most Tea Party supporters - 52 percent - say their taxes are fair, the poll shows. Just under one in five Americans say they support the Tea Party movement. …
Huh? That's counterintuitive. The majority of Tea Partiers say their taxes are fair. The New York Times analysis helps to clarify Tea Partiers’ “fierce animosity toward Washington” is not over taxes specifically but rather a “deep pessimism about the direction of the country and the conviction that the policies of the Obama administration are disproportionately directed at helping the poor rather than the middle class or the rich.”
Agree with analysis or not these are interesting results at any rate.
Excerpted from “Poll Finds Tea Party Backers Wealthier and More Educated” By KATE ZERNIKE and MEGAN THEE-BRENAN, The New York Times, Published: April 14, 2010
[SIZE="+2"]T[/SIZE]ea Party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public, and are no more or less afraid of falling into a lower socioeconomic class, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. …