Tax day polls: 48% say their taxes are ‘about right,’ 41% think poor pay enough

A new Gallup Poll, released two days before today’s tax day “Tea Party” protests, finds that 48% of Americans say the amount of federal income taxes they pay is “about right” — “one of the most positive assessments Gallup has measured since 1956,” according to the polling firm. Those saying taxes are “too high” make up 46 percent of survey respondents, who were polled April 6 to 9.

Another Gallup poll, out this morning, shows that 41 percent of those surveyed think low-income Americans are paying their fair share of taxes. That figure is up from last year, when 32 percent of respondents thought poor people were paying the right amount. Thirty-nine percent of those surveyed think lower-income Americans are paying too much in taxes: last year, 51 percent of Americans felt that way.