In the article Nevadans Say That Income Tax Cuts Should Stay, the individuals being poled were asked if they wanted the ‘Bush Tax Cuts’ enacted in 2001 and 2003 should stay in place in the coming years. This question seems quite arbitrary and perhaps dated. Wouldn’t the better question be, do Nevadans want Income Tax Cuts? At the time those tax cuts were first enacted it may have made sense for the country at the time. If the people who issued the poll wanted a response that reflected the state today, they needed to find a more open question, rather than such a restrictive one.
For one thing, many of the people being polled probably never knew, or have forgotten, what exactly the Bush Tax Cuts were. How can one make an informed decision if they do not know what they are being asked? Most people will just say that yes, the tax cuts should be extended because they think that it will be less money for them to pay to the government and more money to save or spend on themselves. What most individuals don’t realize is that by this point the only group of individuals who would further benefit from these tax cuts are the wealthy, and not so much them and their families. In this sense, asking if they feel tax cuts in general should be extended would show a further idea of the idea currently. Many people would probably still agree that there need to be tax cuts but they may now be more free to also say, or perhaps start contemplating, how these tax cuts should work. The only information that the polling company is getting now is whether or not people are still thinking about how to help themselves and not them and everyone in their community around them by wrapping them in a biased question based upon already enacted laws.
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