A majority of Americans do not believe the budget plan signed this week by President Clinton will do much good, a poll shows.

The CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll released Wednesday showed 44 percent in favor of the plan and 46 percent opposed to it. Ten percent were unsure.Fifty-six percent thought the plan would not meet its target of reducing the federal deficit by $496 billion. Thirty-eight percent thought it would.

Fifty-five percent said it would not improve the economy, and 58 percent said it would not reduce federal spending.

Though Clinton has tried to sell the plan as a tax increase aimed at the rich, 51 percent said it would not make the tax system more fair while 42 percent said it would.

About two-thirds thought middle-income Americans would pay most of the new taxes in the plan.

Only 17 percent thought Clinton had reduced gridlock in Washington.

The results, based on a random poll of 1,003 adults Sunday through Tuesday, have a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

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