Primary Source of School Funding: Local Property Taxes vs. Existing State Governments (June 2018)
category | Total |
---|---|
Local property taxes | 23% |
Existing state taxes | 50% |
Don't know/no opinion | 27% |
category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Local property taxes | 20% | 17% | 28% |
Existing state taxes | 54% | 46% | 49% |
Don't know/no opinion | 26% | 36% | 23% |
category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
Local property taxes | 19% | 18% | 21% |
Existing state taxes | 54% | 46% | 58% |
Don't know/no opinion | 27% | 36% | 21% |
category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Local property taxes | 32% | 29% | 25% |
Existing state taxes | 56% | 34% | 55% |
Don't know/no opinion | 12% | 38% | 20% |
category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
Local property taxes | 19% | 21% | 27% |
Existing state taxes | 59% | 39% | 50% |
Don't know/no opinion | 22% | 39% | 23% |
category | Leaning liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
Local property taxes | 12% | 22% | 20% |
Existing state taxes | 68% | 50% | 64% |
Don't know/no opinion | 20% | 28% | 16% |
category | Leaning conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
Local property taxes | 31% | 22% | 32% |
Existing state taxes | 45% | 53% | 48% |
Don't know/no opinion | 24% | 25% | 20% |
category | Democrat | Republican | Tea Party |
---|---|---|---|
Local property taxes | 21% | 24% | 35% |
Existing state taxes | 56% | 52% | 52% |
Don't know/no opinion | 23% | 24% | 13% |
category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
Local property taxes | 23% | 16% | 24% |
Existing state taxes | 56% | 42% | 43% |
Don't know/no opinion | 21% | 42% | 34% |
category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
Local property taxes | 23% | 23% |
Existing state taxes | 56% | 45% |
Don't know/no opinion | 21% | 32% |
category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
Local property taxes | 19% | 28% | 19% |
Existing state taxes | 50% | 49% | 54% |
Don't know/no opinion | 32% | 23% | 26% |
category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
Local property taxes | 16% | 20% | 29% | 23% |
Existing state taxes | 49% | 46% | 47% | 62% |
Don't know/no opinion | 35% | 35% | 25% | 15% |
category | No high school | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Local property taxes | 18% | 24% | 23% | 13% | 27% | 24% |
Existing state taxes | 28% | 45% | 55% | 63% | 49% | 54% |
Don't know/no opinion | 54% | 31% | 22% | 25% | 24% | 23% |
category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
Local property taxes | 24% | 28% | 13% | 21% |
Existing state taxes | 47% | 50% | 57% | 53% |
Don't know/no opinion | 29% | 21% | 30% | 26% |
category | The Bible is the word of God, to be taken literally | The Bible is the word of God, not to be taken literally | The Bible is a book written by men |
---|---|---|---|
Local property taxes | 24% | 24% | 22% |
Existing state taxes | 48% | 55% | 54% |
Don't know/no opinion | 28% | 21% | 25% |