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  • Nov, 2013

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    Return to budget surplus

    Q. Do you think it is more important for the Government to return the budget to surplus as soon as possible – which may mean cutting services and raising taxes – OR should they delay the return to surplus and maintain services and invest in infrastructure?

     

     Total

     

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

    Vote other

    Return to surplus as soon as possible, cut services, raise taxes

    15%

    5%

    26%

    10%

    8%

    Delay return to surplus, maintain services, invest in infrastructure

    69%

    82%

    61%

    79%

    71%

    Don’t know

    16%

    13%

    13%

    11%

    21%

    Only 15% think that the Government should return the budget to surplus as soon as possible – which may mean cutting services and raising taxes – and 69% think they should delay the return to surplus and maintain services and invest in infrastructure.

    Liberal/National voters were a little more likely to think it is more important to return to surplus as soon as possible (26%).

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