57% Support 90% Tax on AIG Post-Bailout Bonuses

Fifty-seven percent (57%) of U.S. voters favor imposing a 90% tax on bonuses paid by American International Group (AIG) and other firms that receive government bailout money, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Thirty-five percent (35%) oppose such a tax, which already has been approved by the House and is now under discussion in the Senate.

Three-out-of-four Americans (76%) want the executives involved to give the bonuses back. Sixty-eight percent (68%) have come to believe that most bailout money is going to those who caused the economic crisis to begin with.

Seventy-three percent (73%) of voters say Congress and President Obama should have acted to prevent the AIG bonuses before the company received its bailout money. Only 10% disagree,and 17% are not sure.

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