DC Voters Support Raising Taxes
Eighty percent of DC voters support raising taxes on incomes above $250,000 a year to support the District’s long-term economic recovery, a 2021 poll from the DC Fiscal Policy Institute and DC Action shows.
Key findings from the poll include:
80 percent of DC voters support raising taxes on incomes above $250,000 to support other residents facing hard times and to sustain DC’s recovery. The number is consistent with a similar poll from 2020 that found 82 percent support raising taxes on wealthy residents.
78 percent of respondents supported “raising taxes on individuals’ income above $250,000 to fully fund health and economic programs to address DC’s widening racial inequality.”
84 percent of DC voters also voiced support for asking big profitable corporations like Amazon and Walmart to pay more in taxes because they currently “pay a lower income tax rate than middle-income residents.”