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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
More interestingly, spending cuts are far and away the #1 choice of Albertans, but according to Prentice's speech we aren't seeing any of those either.
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Originally Posted by Slava
Is there a poll somewhere that shows this? Not saying its not, but there were at least two articles on the news last night for groups already campaigning against cuts that haven't even been announced yet.
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The government released the results of its online Budget 2015 survey on Monday, saying it received 40,513 responses with Albertans evenly split between reducing spending, increasing revenue and running a deficit in order to make up for the government's $7 billion revenue shortfall.
Roughly 79% of Albertans surveyed said that balancing the budget by cutting funding to programs and services is not acceptable while 59% found raising taxes to be somewhat or very acceptable. Albertans were split on borrowing, with 52% saying its somewhat or very acceptable and 48% saying it's not very or not at all acceptable.
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http://www.edmontonsun.com/2015/03/2...ilize-revenues
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The Global News survey is not scientific. Our questions were posted on Feb. 20 and by March 2, there was an average of between 2,500 and 3,000 responses per question.
The government survey had more than 40,000 responses. It closed on Feb. 28. The province has not said exactly when the results will be made public.
Finance Minister Robin Campbell previously said he’s eyeing a nine per cent spending cuts across the board. However, when asked whether spending cuts to programs and services including health care and education, 79 per cent of Global News survey respondents said that is not acceptable.
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http://globalnews.ca/news/1840311/al...-really-think/
8 out of 10 albertans thinks it's unacceptable to balance the budget by cutting programs and services.
Doesn't seem 'far and away' to me, crazy_eoj. Seems like the opposite, in fact.