Percent in the U.S. who believe President Obama has “raised taxes” or “kept taxes the same”: 74
Percent of tea party supporters who believe this: 94
Percent of working people — those with wages or other earned income — who received tax cuts under Obama’s stimulus bill: 98
Average tax cut received by working families and individuals under the stimulus bill in 13 Southern states: $1,049
Total cost of tax cuts under the Bush administration: $2.5 trillion
Percent of those tax cuts that went to the richest 5% in the country: 53
Percent by which companies receiving U.S. military contracts increased their use of offshore subsidiaries to lower their U.S. tax burden between 2003 and 2008: 26
Percent of U.S. corporations that paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005: 66
Total amount of federal, state and local taxes paid in the U.S. in 2007, the latest year for which figures are available: $3.8 trillion
Percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product, which measures the total size of the economy, that represents: 27
Average percent of GDP that taxes represent in world’s 30 richest countries: 36
Number of demonstrations organized by groups associated with the tea party movement on Tax Day 2009: 800
Percent by which whites in Southern states are more likely to be sympathetic to the tea party cause than whites in other parts of the country: 12
Percent of those who “strongly support” the tea party who believe African Americans are “intelligent”: 45
Percent of tea party supporters who believe global warming will have “no impact” or “doesn’t exist”: 66
Percent of tea party supporters who believe President Obama is moving the country “towards socialism”: 92
Percent of tea party supporters who agree with the statement “the benefits from programs such as Social Security and Medicare are worth the costs of those programs for taxpayers”: 62
Percent of tea party supporters who rely on Fox News Channel for “information about politics and current events”: 63
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