What Can Brown Do For You? The Hart Poll Results
Have you heard about the Hart Research poll on DC taxes? Too busy to read through the poll and the results?
Check out the latest episode of What Can Brown (& Graham, Evans, Cheh, Bowser, Thomas, Wells, Catania, Mendelson, Orange and Michael Brown) Do For You?
In short, DC residents overwhelming say that maintaining critical public services is more important than holding down taxes. They also said by wide margins that they found the proposed income tax increase acceptable, and support for the proposal crosses race, class and even ward boundaries.
What did voters find unacceptable? Cuts to education, homeless services, public safety and services for residents with disabilities.
[...] the tax increase proposed by the Mayor. However, the DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI) paid for a poll to be conducted that revealed that an overwhelming majority of District residents approved the tax increase and [...]
[...] D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute commissioned a poll that says the majority of D.C. residents favored a tax [...]