Are you a millionaire, i.e., does your household have a net worth of a million dollars or more minus the value of your primary residence?
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Do you know anyone who is a millionaire?
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Do you think you know the name of the richest person in St. Louis?
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Do you think St. Louis has more or fewer millionaires than other cities its size?
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More:
23%
Fewer:
34%
About the same:
43%
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Would you expect a greater percentage of millionaires in Missouri to live in major cities, like St. Louis or Kansas City, or in small towns outstate?
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In major cities:
71%
Outstate:
29%
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Do you favor or oppose a system that taxes people with larger incomes at higher rates than people with lower incomes?
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Would you favor or oppose a change in the state income tax system that would add a millionaires' surcharge to the tax bills of households in Missouri or Illinois with high incomes?
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Favor:
20%
Favor, if "high incomes" means a million dollars or more:
37%
Oppose:
43%
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Would you favor or oppose a plan to pay for a new national healthcare system by imposing a surtax of 5.4 percent on couples with more than $1 million a year in income, and raise the tax rates on households with more than $350,000 a year in income?
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If a millionaire were to lose 30 percent of her money, would you feel sorry for her?
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In general, do you think the penalty for stealing from a poor person should be higher than stealing from a rich person?
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Yes, the penalty for stealing from a poor person should be higher:
5%
No, the penalties should be the same:
94%
No, the penalty for stealing from a rich person should be higher:
2%
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If you were a millionaire, would you rather have gotten your money by being an entertainer, a pro athlete, an inventor, or an entrepreneur?
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Entertainer:
8%
Athlete:
4%
Inventor:
29%
Entrepreneur:
59%
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Who is luckier, an heir or a lottery winner?
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Heir:
29%
Lottery winner:
39%
No real difference between them:
32%
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If you had a million dollars, in which of the following would you be most willing to invest all of it?
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City real estate:
29%
City businesses:
10%
Stock in St. Louis companies:
22%
CDs in St. Louis banks:
39%
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Would you rather be married to a millionaire jerk or to a poor sweetie?
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Rich jerk:
14%
Poor sweetie:
86%
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By which of the following methods do you think you could most likely become a millionaire?
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Working harder at what I am doing right now:
15%
Saving more money than I currently do:
20%
Buying a lottery ticket:
30%
Inheriting it:
9%
Marrying it:
12%
I am already a millionaire:
14%
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Do you think you will (or will still) be worth at least a million dollars in ten years?
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Do you think that St. Louis's richest people are more generous or less generous to charitable causes than are Kansas City's richest people?
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St. Louisans are more generous:
37%
Kansas Citians are more generous:
7%
They are about the same:
56%
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In your own experience, do you think millionaires are more or less likely to give to charity than "regular folks"?
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More likely to give money; less likely to volunteer time:
45%
More likely to give money; more likely to volunteer time:
35%
Less likely to give money; more likely to volunteer time:
5%
Less likely to give money; less likely to volunteer time:
15%
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