Oklahoma Poll
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November 12, 2010
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Bill Shapard

Tulsa World: Tax-cut extensions supported

By Randy Krehbiel, Tulsa World

Slightly more than half of Oklahomans polled favor continuing all of the Bush-era tax cuts.

About half of Oklahomans support extending the so-called Bush tax cuts, at least temporarily, to all income brackets, the most recent Oklahoma Poll shows.

A little more than 50 percent of those surveyed Oct. 18-23 said the cuts should be extended for all, with one-third saying they should be extended only for those making less than $250,000 a year.

Eleven percent said all of the cuts should be allowed to expire.

Oklahomans were less sure about making the cuts permanent. Thirty-eight percent said all cuts should be made permanent; 20 percent said only cuts to the lower brackets should be made permanent; and 34 percent said none of the cuts should be made permanent.

Bill Shapard, whose firm SoonerPoll.com conducted the survey, said the results indicate Oklahomans buy into trickle-down economics - the theory that tax cuts for the top income brackets result in benefits for lower-income households.

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Bill Shapard
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Bill Shapard

Bill is the founder of SoonerPoll.com and ShapardResearch, a full service market research firm based in Oklahoma City. Bill began his career in polling after working on major campaigns for both Republicans and Democrats in Oklahoma from 1996 until founding SoonerPoll in 2004.