Questions - Sin Taxes - August 5-6, 2014
Most Think Feds Too Big a Presence in Their Lives
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National Survey of
1,000 American Adults
Conducted August 5-6, 2014
By Rasmussen Reports
1* Are you personally overtaxed?
2* Does the federal government play too
big a role or too small a role in the lives of average Americans? Or is the
level of government involvement about right?
3* How effective have higher taxes on
cigarettes been in reducing smoking – very effective, somewhat effective, not
very effective or not at all effective?
4* How effective have higher taxes on
alcohol been in reducing excessive drinking?
5* A proposal now before Congress would
add a one-cent-per-teaspoon tax on sugar to discourage sugar use and help fund
programs to fight obesity and diabetes. Do you favor or oppose a sugar tax like
this?
6* A proposal has been made to tax
people based on how many miles they drive to raise additional funds for highway
maintenance. Do you favor or oppose a mileage tax?
7* Should the
country legalize and tax marijuana?
8* How confident are you that money raised
from new taxes would go to the programs they were created to fund – very
confident, somewhat confident, not very confident or not at all confident?
NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error,
+/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence