While 44% of the adults surveyed in the poll said that raising taxes on incomes above US$250,000 would help the economy and increase fairness, 22% said it would hurt the economy and 21% said that it would make the system less fair.
Further, opinions also were divided, with 64% of Democrats predicting raising taxes on the wealthy would help the economy, compared to 27% of Republicans.
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Also, members of both the parties were also about 10% more likely than independents to know that President Barack Obama supports ending Bush-era tax cuts on income above US$250,000.
Meanwhile, the survey respondents who were aware of Obama’s stance, as well as those who said they’d heard a lot about the issue, were more inclined to support a tax increase.
The Pew Research Center poll surveyed 1,015 adults by telephone between 12 July 2012 and 15 July 2012 and the survey has a 3.6% margin of error.
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