These tax cuts are oftentimes referred to simply as the “Bush tax cuts.” In this survey, we discovered tying the tax cuts directly to President Bush makes little difference to voters’ views on whether or not they should be made permanent. We split the sample of 800 voters nationwide into two equally representative samples of approximately 400 respondents each. One sample was asked about making the “Bush tax cuts” permanent and the other was asked about making the “tax cuts” permanent, with no reference to Bush. To this, we found 48% favor making the “Bush tax cuts” permanent, while 38% said let them expire and 13% have no opinion (compared to 52% who favored making “the tax cuts” permanent, 38% let them expire and 10% no opinion when no reference to Bush is made). Once again, voters with strong opinions are more likely to favor making the “Bush tax cuts” permanent, by a 34% to 21% margin.

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