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>Twitter is not 'the mood of the nation'. You are not representative of 'the mood of the nation'. In fact, you're an outlier. According to a Reuters poll from
by lemmsjid 6y ago
>Twitter is not 'the mood of the nation'. You are not representative of 'the mood of the nation'. In fact, you're an outlier.
According to a Reuters poll from this beginning of this year a large majority of Democrats and a slim majority of Republicans support the idea of a wealth tax. While there isn't a large amount of polling on the subject (that I can see), that somewhat undercuts the Twitterspace argument.
The specific question people responded to in that poll was "the very rich should contribute an extra share of their total wealth each year to support public programs" so you can dissect it at your will.
- twblalock 6y ago> According to a Reuters poll from this beginning of this year a large majority of Democrats and a slim majority of Republicans support the idea of a wealth tax. That's only because they haven't seen the specifics.
- OpieCunningham 6y agoThat seems like an argument that could be made against literally every opinion poll. The “specifics” according to whom?
- tekknik 6y agoI once dug around to specifically find out how gallup accounts for population and they simply don’t show you. You just have to take their word on it. So until opinion polls give exact equations used and raw data so I can verify myself I completely ignore them.
- telotortium 6y agoYes, that is a problem with every opinion poll about a hypothetical policy proposal. Those polls aren't super useful for gauging how popular a concrete piece of legislation would be in practice.