Republican Senators have “test marketed” their ideas by polling Iowans, and the primary result may be the death of the proposal to abolish state income taxes for Iowans under the age of 30. Senate Co-Leader Stewart Iverson, a republican from Dows, was surprised that only six percent of the 500 Iowans they questioned liked the proposal.Iverson says the “under 30” proposal created a great deal of discussion. He says folks “literally around the world latched onto the idea and said ‘What about this?'” But apparently the idea didn’t fly with Iowans. “It’s kind of the good news/bad news type thing but the other thing is that’s just the reality of it,” Iverson says. Iverson says the most favorable poll response was for another one of the republican senators’ ideas — giving businesses a tax credit for each new job created. In case you wondered, Iverson says republican senators often turn to pollsters to see how their ideas are selling with the public. “We want to know how some of these things get interpreted out there,” Iverson says. “All of us in the political business do polling for time to time. That’s not an unusual thing.”
