GOP Still Leads on Issue of Taxes
Less than a year before the 2024 election, voters still trust Republicans more on the key issue of taxes, although the margin has narrowed.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 45% of Likely U.S. voters trust Republicans more to handle taxes, while 40% trust Democrats more and 15% are not sure. In July, the GOP was more trusted than Democrats by a seven-point margin, 48% to 41%. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Eighty-one percent (81%) of voters believe the issue of taxes will be important in the 2024 presidential election, including 41% who think the tax issue will be Very Important. Only 17% don’t think taxes will be important in next year’s election.
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The survey of 873 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on November 28-30, 2023 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research.
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