Voters Believe Biden Will Break Promise and Raise Taxes on Middle Class
Cost of sweeping new federal spending worries voters
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Democrat Joe Biden pledged he wouldn't raise taxes on anyone earning less than $400,000 a year, but due to his history of breaking promises, voters are skeptical, according to a new poll.
As the cost of sweeping new federal spending becomes more obvious, electorates are becoming worried.
According to Scott Rasmussen and RMG Research survey, 61% of registered voters believe Biden will increase taxes on middle-class Americans despite his promise not to.
Twenty-seven percent said they believed it would be unlikely Biden would increase taxes, and 12% said they were unsure.
83% of Republicans said they believed tax hikes were coming, and almost half of Democrats agreed.
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Voters identifying with Biden's party were split:
47% said g a tax increase was likely
44% saying it was not
Forty-four percent of independents expect tax increases, compared to 25% who did not.
The poll surveyed 1,200 people between Aug. 4-9.
The White House claimed Democrats’ spending on infrastructure and families is popular with voters and will help economic growth.
Democrats turned their sights on a multi-trillion budget plan that promises to invest in a historic expansion of social programs.
The package is expected to total more than $3.5 trillion, and no Republicans are expected to back the reconciliation package.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi repeated her promise to hold off on passing the Senate bipartisan infrastructure plan until the Senate sends the reconciliation package through.
In a memo, director of the National Economic Council Brian Deese said both pieces of legislation should be viewed as “long-term investments that are spread over the course of the decade.”
Donald Trump blasted the bipartisan infrastructure bill as “the beginning of the Green New Deal" in a statement released through his Save America PAC.
Trump said:
“This is not an infrastructure bill, this is the beginning of the Green New Deal."
“The bill I proposed, which Mitch McConnell couldn’t do anything with, was pure infrastructure."
"I want what is best for America, not what’s best for the Communist Democrat Party."
"This will be a big victory for the Democrats and will be used against Republicans in the upcoming elections.”
