Exclusive | More than 8 in 10 voters support keeping Trumps 2017 tax cuts: poll

More than 8 in 10 likely voters want President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts extended before they expire at the end of this year, according to a new poll released as Congress rushes to finalize a “big, beautiful” bill making those provisions permanent.A Public Opinion Strategies survey exclusively obtained by The Post found 84% of possible US voters would back keeping the current tax rates if they were in Congress — while just 16% would favor a tax increase.By party affiliation, 95% of Republicans, 81% of independents and 74% of Democrats prefer the status quo in terms of taxation.Likely senior voters, moderates and suburbanites — key demographics for next year’s midterms — were all in favor of extending the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act by margins of more than 60% each.At the same time, 80% of potential voters said it was not ideal to increase taxes — up four percentage points from September — and a mere 3% said it was a good time for an increase, with 17% saying they were indifferent.At least 68% of the poll’s respondents also said Uncle Sam was taking too much of their take-home pay, compared with 32% who said that taxes were at the right levels.Roughly three-quarters also said that not keeping the Trump tax cuts would hurt middle-class families, small business owners and consumers the most.Asked about the best way to chip away at the roughly $2 trillion federal budget deficit, 51% said they would like to see the feds cut spending, 44% would like to see the economy grow and revenues boosted — and just 5% would like a tax increase.“Voters overwhelmingly support extending the 2017 tax cuts, and they want Congress to act as soon as possible to make the extension of these cuts a reality,” wrote Public Opinion Strategies partner Jim Hobart in the polling memo.“Letting these tax cuts expires is seen as hurting small businesses, middle class families, American consumers, and the economy as a whole,” he said.“Thus, it is no surprise that extending th...