When U.S. adults were asked to choose between the candidate’s tax plans, 79 percent of the respondents favored Clinton’s proposals over Trump’s, according to a survey by consumer finance website WalletHub.

When respondents were presented with the candidates’ tax plans impacts on wealthy Americans without the candidate’s name disclosed, 70 percent favored Clinton’s proposals. When asked in a similar manner to choose between the candidates’ corporate tax plans, 73 percent favored Clinton’s proposals.

Americans favor Republican Donald Trump’s desire to simplify the tax code, but also agree with Democrat Hillary Clinton’s faith in a system that progressively taxes the wealthy and businesses more than the middle class, according to the survey.

When WalletHub asked about the current tax code, more than 75 percent of respondents said it was either complex or extremely complex. A similar number, almost 76 percent, favored some sort of progressive tax code, with the rest preferring a flat tax.

Yet the survey’s respondents were most likely to choose a tax code that, while progressive, required even the poorest income earners to pay income tax.

Nearly half of respondents, 48 percent, said the fairest tax code would have fewer deductions than are currently available.

Men, at 30 percent, were more likely to prefer a flat tax than women, at 23 percent. Men were also slightly more likely than women to believe that a fair tax code would involve fewer deductions, according to WalletHub.

More than half of the survey’s respondents, 57 percent, believed that tax fairness is more important than whatever is best for the economy, 23 percent, and tax equality, 21 percent.

When asked to rate current taxation policies on fairness, respondents felt that vice taxes on alcohol and tobacco were the most fair, followed by sales tax policies and rules for charitable donations. Taxes on gas, food, corporations and wages were viewed as the least fair policies.

The respondents strongly favored taxing capital gains equally or greater than wages. More than half, 57 percent, said that wages and investment income should be taxed equally, while another 33 perceant said that investment income should be taxed more than wages.

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