{"id":200647,"date":"2019-12-25T07:19:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T07:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/millionaires-support-a-wealth-tax-as-long-as-they-arent-getting-taxed-cnbc-survey.html"},"modified":"2019-12-25T07:19:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T07:19:32","slug":"millionaires-support-a-wealth-tax-as-long-as-they-arent-getting-taxed-cnbc-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/millionaires-support-a-wealth-tax-as-long-as-they-arent-getting-taxed-cnbc-survey.html","title":{"rendered":"Millionaires support a wealth tax \u2014 as long as they aren&#8217;t getting taxed: CNBC survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of millionaires support a wealth tax on those worth $50 million or more, but their support declines for a tax on those worth $10 million, according to a new poll.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-nine percent of millionaires said they would support a new federal tax on wealth over $50 million, according to the Q4 CNBC Millionaire Survey. Democratic presidential candidate <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s<\/a> tax plan includes a wealth tax of 2% on wealth over $50 million and 6% over $1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-eight percent opposed a wealth tax on those worth over $10 million.<\/p>\n<p>Attitudes toward the wealth tax are also strongly dependent on political party rather than wealth levels. Fully 88% of Democratic millionaires support a tax on wealth over $50 million, compared with just a third of Republican millionaires.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>As for their own tax burden, most millionaires feel like they pay enough already. Fully 60% feel they pay their fair share of taxes, and a third believe they pay more than their fair share. Republican millionaires are more likely to feel they pay enough or too much.<\/p>\n<p>The richer millionaires are more likely to oppose a wealth tax. About half of those worth $5 million or more oppose Warren&#8217;s wealth tax.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most people who are worth $10 million or less don&#8217;t feel wealthy, even though they are relative to the population,&#8221; said George Walper, president of Spectrem Group. &#8220;And so they feel they should not be penalized. But they do think that people worth $50 million or more are wealthy and should pay more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The CNBC Millionaire survey polled more than 700 people with investible assets of $1 million or more, including 301 Republicans, 200 Democrats and 247 independents. Respondents had to be the financial decision-maker or share jointly in financial decision-making within the household. The survey is conducted twice a year, in the spring and fall, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/12\/23\/millionaires-support-a-wealth-tax-as-long-as-they-arent-getting-taxed.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of millionaires support a wealth tax on those worth $50 million or more, but their support declines for a tax on those worth $10 million, according to a new poll. Fifty-nine percent of millionaires said they would support a new federal tax on wealth over $50 million, according to the Q4 CNBC Millionaire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-200647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}