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title: "Repeal Bush Tax Cuts"
description: "The majority of voters in this month’s elections favor either repealing the Bush administration’s tax cuts for everyone or repealing those received by the higher-income taxpayers."
date: "2010-11-12"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2010/11/12/repeal-bush-tax-cuts/"
---

# Repeal Bush Tax Cuts

The 2010 elections swept Republicans into power of the House of Representatives, but a majority of those who voted in this year’s election do not side with the GOP on the full extension of the Bush administration tax cuts. A post-election Pew Research Center survey finds that most voters (55%) favor either repealing the Bush administration’s tax cuts for everyone (22%) or repealing those received by higher-income taxpayers (33%). Only 40% of voters favor leaving the tax cuts intact. Among all adults, 34% favor keeping all the tax cuts while 30% want the tax cuts for the wealthy to expire and 28% say all tax cuts should be repealed. Still, a 37%-plurality says Republicans will have a better approach than President Obama on taxes. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/report/?pageid=1844)