{"id":529264,"date":"2010-04-15T12:52:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T16:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.southernstudies.org,2010:\/\/5.12226"},"modified":"2010-04-15T13:17:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:17:18","slug":"institute-index-of-taxes-and-tea-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/529264","title":{"rendered":"INSTITUTE INDEX: Of taxes and tea parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/images\/sitepieces\/tea_party_tax_protest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tea_party_tax_protest.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/tea_party_tax_protest-thumb-250x332.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px;\" height=\"332\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/span>Percent in the U.S. who believe President Obama has &#8220;raised taxes&#8221; or &#8220;kept taxes the same&#8221;: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/htdocs\/pdf\/poll_Tea_Party_021110.pdf\">74<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_dd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkname=&amp;linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.southernstudies.org%2F2010%2F04%2Finstitute-index-of-taxes-and-tea-parties.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/buttons\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Share\/Bookmark\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">a2a_linkurl=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/2010\/04\/institute-index-of-taxes-and-tea-parties.html\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/menu\/page.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Percent of tea party supporters who believe this: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/documents.nytimes.com\/new-york-timescbs-news-poll-national-survey-of-tea-party-supporters?ref=politics\">94<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Percent of working people &#8212; those with wages or other earned income &#8212; who received tax cuts under Obama&#8217;s stimulus bill: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctj.org\/obamastaxcuts.php\">98<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Average tax cut received by working families and individuals under the stimulus bill in 13 Southern states: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctj.org\/obamastaxcuts.php\">$1,049<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Total cost of tax cuts under the Bush administration: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctj.org\/pdf\/bushtaxcutsvshealthcare.pdf\">$2.5 trillion<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Percent of those tax cuts that went to the richest 5% in the country: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctj.org\/pdf\/bushtaxcutsvshealthcare.pdf\">53<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>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: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontechnology.com\/articles\/2010\/01\/28\/defense-contractors-offshore-gao.aspx\">26<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Percent of U.S. corporations that paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/13\/business\/13tax.html?_r=1&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1271336405-XEmZM1f8tHVwxlO317X+Sw\">66<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Total amount of federal, state and local taxes paid in the U.S. in 2007, the latest year for which figures are available: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxpolicycenter.org\/publications\/url.cfm?ID=901335\">$3.8 trillion<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product, which measures the total size of the economy, that represents: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxpolicycenter.org\/publications\/url.cfm?ID=901335\">27<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Average percent of GDP that taxes represent in world&#8217;s 30 richest countries: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxpolicycenter.org\/publications\/url.cfm?ID=901335\">36<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Number of demonstrations organized by groups associated with the tea party movement on Tax Day 2009: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teapartypatriots.org\/\">800<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>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: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/2010\/04\/tax-week-whos-coming-to-the-tea-parties.html\">12<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Percent of those who &#8220;strongly support&#8221; the tea party who believe African Americans are &#8220;intelligent&#8221;: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/2010\/04\/tax-week-whos-coming-to-the-tea-parties.html\">45<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Percent of tea party supporters who believe global warming will have &#8220;no impact&#8221; or &#8220;doesn&#8217;t exist&#8221;: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/documents.nytimes.com\/new-york-timescbs-news-poll-national-survey-of-tea-party-supporters?ref=politics\">66<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Percent of tea party supporters who believe President Obama is moving the country &#8220;towards socialism&#8221;: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/documents.nytimes.com\/new-york-timescbs-news-poll-national-survey-of-tea-party-supporters?ref=politics\">92<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Percent of tea party supporters who agree with the statement &#8220;the benefits from programs such as Social Security and Medicare are worth the costs of those programs for taxpayers&#8221;: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/documents.nytimes.com\/new-york-timescbs-news-poll-national-survey-of-tea-party-supporters?ref=politics\">62<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Percent of tea party supporters who rely on Fox News Channel for &#8220;information about politics and current events&#8221;: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/documents.nytimes.com\/new-york-timescbs-news-poll-national-survey-of-tea-party-supporters?ref=politics\">63<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/b><font style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\"><i><font style=\"font-size: 1.25em;\">(Click on figure to go to the original source.)<\/font><\/i><i><\/i><\/font> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Percent in the U.S. who believe President Obama has &#8220;raised taxes&#8221; or &#8220;kept taxes the same&#8221;: 74 Percent of tea party supporters who believe this: 94 Percent of working people &#8212; those with wages or other earned income &#8212; who received tax cuts under Obama&#8217;s stimulus bill: 98 Average tax cut received by working families [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4084,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4084"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}