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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
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.
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Not sure, all I know is that you posted this:
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A Mainstreet Technologies poll provided to the Calgary Herald, conducted Sunday, suggests Albertans are highly resistant to any tax hikes. Only 15 per cent of survey respondents say they’d favour increased taxes. Spending cuts are the preferred solution of 43 per cent.
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Further in the article it says:
Spending cuts are more popular than deficits, borrowing and taxes combined.