The CBS News/New York Times poll also found that 18 percent of Americans identify themselves as supporters of the tea party movement. Most tea partiers think taxes 'fair'

A majority of self-identified tea party protestors say the income taxes they will pay this year are “fair,” according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll.

Fifty-two percent in the poll of the 881 anti-tax activists surveyed said their taxes are “fair” compared to 42 percent who said they are not fair. Six percent of the tea partiers didn’t know if their taxes were fair or not.


While the tea party activists had a more negative outlook on the taxes they will pay than the rest of the country, their views were not far off.

Among all Americans, 62 percent of those surveyed said their taxes were fair compared to 30 percent who do not.

Even though most of the tea party activists polled think their taxes are fair, cutting taxes and reducing the size of government are still purported to be the major cause of the movement whose acronym stands for “taxed enough already.”

The Tea Party Patriots – an umbrella organization of grassroots groups – unveiled its “Contract from America” on Wednesday, and five of the ten tenets were related to reducing taxes and government spending.

The poll also found 18 percent of Americans identify themselves as supporters of the tea party movement and that the activists tend to be white males older than 45.