Toplines: Capital Tax

Survey of 800 Likely Voters

April 18-20, 2008

1* A proposal has been made to increase the capital gains tax from 15% to 28%. Do you favor or oppose increasing the capital gains tax to 28%?

16% Favor
65% Oppose
20% Not sure

2* If the capital gains tax is increased to 28%, will that help the economy or hurt the economy?

17% Help
52% Hurt
18% Neither
14% Not sure

3* If a Presidential candidate promised to raise the capital gains tax, would he or she be likely to raise other taxes too?

60% Yes

13% No

27% Not sure

4* If a Presidential candidate promised to raise the capital gains tax, would you end up paying more in taxes?

48% Yes

24% No

29% Not sure

5* Do you own more than $5,000 of stocks, bonds, or mutual funds?

56% Yes

38% No

6% Not sure

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence