The 'System Doesn't Work': National Group Finds Local Support for 'Tax the Rich' Message During US Bus Tour

Democrat, Republican, Independent: Mainers want to tax the rich.

That’s one of the takeaways from recent polling numbers released by the advocacy group Tax March, which stopped in Portland on Tuesday to deliver the results of the polling and promote the group’s message of higher taxes on the rich and more equitable funding for social programs. 

Support for taxing the rich cuts across ideological lines, “including 90 percent of Democrats, 77 percent of independents, and even 55 percent of Republicans,” the group said in a statement (pdf). “Just 23 percent of Maine voters are opposed to raising taxes on the rich.”

Standing in front of the group’s tour bus, which is traveling across the country to raise awareness for taxing wealthy Americans, Tax March executive director, Maura Quint, told the crowd at Portland’s Lincoln Park in her opening remarks Tuesday that the economy was not just the rich, but working people. 

“The economy is us,” said Quint. 

Quint cited the group’s polling in Maine as evidence that the system is not working well. 

“Seventy-four percent of Maine voters support raising taxes on the rich,” she said. 

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The polling also found that 63 percent of Mainers believe the rich do not pay their fair share in taxes and that 58 percent of Maine voters believe the 2017 tax cuts signed by President Donald Trump should be repealed.