Interpreting the Mass Media from 2016 election

The chart above represents the percent of people and the different news sources they used to get information regarding the 2016 election. It is rated by the most viewed news outlets as a "main source."

A major trend in the data is that Fox news is the most used media outlet for Trump Voters as well as All voters. The reason for this being that Fox News leans more on the conservative side and Trump believes in more conservatives policies, which is why a Trump voter would use Fox News more than any other news source. For example, 40% of Trump voters used Fox News compared to 3% of Clinton Voters who used Fox News. However, Fox News is slightly towards the middle of the political spectrum for News sources which is why most American voters used Fox too. On the other hand, 18% of Clinton Voters use CNN as their primary news source. On the contrary, only 8% of Trump Voters use CNN. This is because CNN draws as a more Liberal news source. This representation can be viewed in the chart below as well.

Based on a chart from Pew Research Center, Most Consistent Conservatives use Fox News their news source. This chart shares a common trend with the bar graph above in that they both show that Conservatives favor Fox News. Most of Trump supporters have more conservatives views which is why it is presented in the chart above that Fox News places as a Conservative news source.

Political Parties and Tax Cut Legislation

To begin, a political party is a collective group of people with similar viewpoints and ideas, as well as how power should be used in a country or society.

Based on the graph, there are a few trends that can be identified. One of those being that legislation favors wealthier Americans with $200k a year or more regarding tax policies. It is distinguishable that the wealthiest gain the most from tax cuts of which they receive thousands of dollars more than the bracket of people who receive less than $200k. This is very unsurprising because the wealthy pay more money on taxes, but in the end, they receive a much higher percentage of the money back.

The middle class is much more different from the upper class regarding tax cuts. The middle-class bracket which makes around 50k-75k a year, only receive $870 back in tax cuts. This is nothing compared to the $69,660 that upper-class citizens make from tax cuts that make more than $1M. 

The defining issue of the matter revolves around the lower-class which make around $10k-$20k a year. These people only receive $50 back from tax cuts which are where the polemic regarding tax cuts come from. It is arguable that the upper-class make much more money in return whereas someone with hardly any money gets nothing in return.