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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
The first poll that you posted, the one I quoted, said exactly that. Now you're reaching for other data.
So the Herald says one thing, and global and the edm sun say another. I guess we should likely throw out all your polls?
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I'm not reaching at all.
The main street technologies poll asks the question in relation to a PST. Would you rather balance the budget with cuts or with a PST? The response was predictable.
When asked HOW they would like to balance the budget, "59% found raising taxes to be somewhat or very acceptable. "
The province officially polled 40 000 albertans. That was their response.
Albertans don't want new taxes, that's painfully obvious. When forced to decide between cuts and increasing revenue, 79 percent of that 40 000 voted that cuts that interfered with programs and services were 'unacceptable'. By definition in an either or scenario, that's implicitly endorsing tax hikes. Explicitly, 59 percent of the population polled viewed that as the most favourable outcome.
Pretty cut and dried.