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Raise taxes or cut spending

6 May 2013

Q. Do you think the Government should raise taxes or cut spending to reduce the national debt or should they do neither?

 

Total

Vote Labor

Vote Lib/Nat

Vote Greens

Raise taxes

13%

23%

5%

28%

Reduce spending

55%

34%

74%

40%

Neither

20%

27%

14%

20%

Don’t know

12%

16%

7%

12%

In order to reduce debt, 55% think the Government should reduce spending and only 13% think they should raise taxes. 20% think they should do neither.

74% of Liberal/National voters think the Government should reduce spending compared to 40% of Greens voters and 34% of Labor voters.

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