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Title: UT/Texas Tribune Poll: Mixed Signals on Budget Cuts
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The Texas Tribune
URL Source: http://www.texastribune.org/texas-t ... -mixed-signals-on-budget-cuts/
Published: Feb 21, 2011
Author: Ross Ramsey
Post Date: 2011-03-08 20:08:22 by lucysmom
Keywords: taxes, balance budget, spending
Views: 3238
Comments: 8
By a margin of more than 2 to 1, Texas voters believe that lawmakers should solve the state's massive shortfall by cutting the budget, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll, but their enthusiasm dissipates when asked if they support specific cuts. "We really want to slash the budget, but not anything in it," says pollster Daron Shaw, a professor of government at UT. On a sliding scale of 0-10, poll respondents were asked whether they would prefer to balance the state's next budget through budget cuts, by raising revenues, or something in between. Only 4 percent proposed doing it all with new revenue, while 17 percent would do it all with budget cuts. Another 22 percent landed right in the middle. But the rest leaned more toward cuts than toward raising new money for the state government. Still, when asked specifically what should be cut, voters were more divided. Given a list of things that could be cut to balance the budget and asked to check each that they'd consider, the voters were protective of state programs, and overwhelmingly so. They oppose cuts to public education, 82 percent; pre-kindergarten, 62 percent; state grants to college students, 73 percent; state contributions to teacher and state employee retirement programs, 69 percent; the Children's Health Insurance Program, 87 percent; to state environmental regulation that could be picked up by the federal government, 65 percent; cuts to Medicaid providers like doctors and hospitals, 86 percent; state funding for nursing home care, 90 percent; prisons for adults or for juveniles, both 67 percent; new highway construction, 63 percent; border security, 85 percent; or for closing four community colleges, 77 percent. Many of the items on that list are among the prime cuts made in proposed budgets from the House, the Senate and the governor. "Frankly, if you're assuming the results of the last election mean you should cut and that people meant government should completely go away, you're overreaching," says pollster Jim Henson, who teaches government and runs the Texas Politics Project at UT. snip Both pollsters say state leaders will have to pick a way through the public's split opinion — cut government but don't cut anything dear — to stay out of trouble in the next political season. Henson says the numbers don't offer a road map to anyone looking for a way out of the state's budget swamp.
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#1. To: hondo68, Fred Mertz, Godwinson, go65, war, no gnu taxes, Skip Intro, ferret mike, jwpegler, brian s, mcgowanjm (#0)
Probably the worst thing that could happen to Republicans right now is that they get the legislation they want.
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
Probably the worst thing that could happen to Republicans The list of choices sux, so allow me to interpert the results of this cherry picked question... The number is among the lowest, so they like the idea but want environmentalists killed dead, not switched out for fed ones. If the Republicans and Democrats both end up on the ash heap of history, it's OK with me. After two hundred years of F'n up, it's clear they both suck equally.
I recall a re-run of MASH I saw where this uber right winger named Colonel Flagg... Note that the 'gov't shutdown' bill was delayed until Friday. That's 2 days from now. And not a word about it. But GD, we get Charlie Sheen crazy, huh? 8D LMFAO But nothing on the Epstein Pedophile Prince Andrews Felons. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Some talking heads are predicting another short term continuing resolution, since the Dims' and Pubbies' budget proposals are miles apart right now.
http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article307641.ece?comments=all 'Miles apart' never stopped the reps before. They're blinking. The relatives who remember not getting SS checks phoned in. 8D
The Republicans budget cuts don't go far enough. The Dems is a fucking joke.
How many girls is Epstein able to employ with his Bush tax cut?
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
$200 cash per erotic massage. plus $200 000 top flight lawyer retainer. Equals as many as he thinks he can hide from the MSM. BTW- ALL the Top Talkin heads were recently at Epstein's Big Party. Check ABC Stephanopoulos off camera vid pulled Epstein.
"Frankly, if you're assuming the results of the last election mean you should cut and that people meant government should completely go away, you're overreaching,"
#2. To: lucysmom (#1)
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to state environmental regulation that could be picked up by the federal government, 65 percent
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Godwinson posted on 2011-02-23 11:47:32 ET
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=18011&Disp=46#C46
#3. To: lucysmom (#1)
Probably the worst thing that could happen to Republicans right now is that they get the legislation they want.
#4. To: mcgowanjm (#3)
Note that the 'gov't shutdown' bill was delayed until Friday.
#5. To: Fred Mertz (#4)
since the Dims' and Pubbies' budget proposals are miles apart right now.
#6. To: Fred Mertz (#4)
#7. To: mcgowanjm (#3)
But nothing on the Epstein Pedophile Prince Andrews Felons.
#8. To: lucysmom (#7)
How many girls is Epstein able to employ with his Bush tax cut?
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