system is unfair % who say the federaltax system is
Views on the fairness of the tax system have changed little since April, but a greater share of the public now perceives the system as unfair than said this late in the Obama administration. In February 2015, about as many described the federal tax system as very or moderately fair (50%) as said it was not too or not at all fair (48%).
Majority of Americans say federal tax  | system is unfair  | % who say the federaltax system is  | Not too/Not atall fair  | bb  | 56 58  | 51  | 50  | 540  | 45  | 48  | 49  | 48  | 41  | 43  | Very/Moderately fair  | 2002  | 2007  | 2012  | 1997  | 2017  | Notes: 1997 and 2010 data from CNN; 2003 data from NPR Q45  | Don t know responses not shown.  | Source Survev responses conducted Oct. 25-30. 2017  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 