XPost: bc.politics, van.general, vic.general   
   From: alangbaker@telus.net   
      
   In article ,   
    ConsÑ`cons  wrote:   
      
   > Only the hard-core rightwingers are buying your bull at this stage of   
   > the game.   
   > The rest of us know that the HST referendum was nothing more than an   
   > inconvenience to you.   
   > And we can see your Hated Sales Tax on every item we buy these days.   
   > May can't come too soon . . . .   
      
   And save us from the NDP propaganda in our schools...   
      
   > ________   
   >   
   > British Columbians don't buy balanced budget promise   
   >   
   > CBC News -  Feb 22, 2013   
   >   
   > Ipsos Reid provincial budget poll   
   >   
   > B.C. Budget 2013   
   >   
   >   
   > Most British Columbians don’t believe the provincial government’s claim   
   > that the budget will be balanced in 2013, according to an Ipsos Reid poll.   
   >   
   > Twelve per cent of those polled said they believed the budget would be   
   > balanced, while 72 per cent said they didn’t believe the B.C. Liberal   
   > government’s balanced budget promise.   
   >   
   > A handful of changes announced in the budget tabled on Tuesday garnered   
   > significant support, according to the poll.   
   >   
   > Eight-five per cent of respondents support the $2 tax increase on a   
   > carton of cigarettes, 84 per cent like the two-year personal income tax   
   > increase for those earning more than $150,000 and 78 per cent said they   
   > agreed with increasing corporate tax rates to 11 per cent.   
   >   
   > Twenty four per cent of respondents said the budget would make them less   
   > likely to vote for the Liberals in the upcoming May election, while 13   
   > per cent said it would make them more likely to vote for Premier Christy   
   > Clark.   
   >   
   > However, 40 per cent of respondents said they believed the province’s   
   > financial situation would be worse if NDP Leader Adrian Dix had been   
   > running the province over the last few years.   Twenty four per cent   
   > thought the situation would have been better under Dix’s leadership, and   
   > just five per cent thought finances would have been "much better" if the   
   > NDP had been running the province.   
   >   
   > The poll of 1,200 British Columbians who said they had read, seen or   
   > heard something about the budget was conducted online between February   
   > 20 and 21.   
   > _________________________________   
      
   --   
   Alan Baker   
   Vancouver, British Columbia   
   "If you raise the ceiling four feet, move the fireplace from that wall   
   to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect if you   
   sit in the bottom of that cupboard."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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