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Q. The Federal Government has announced a one-off levy on tax-payers and cuts in spending to fund the damage from the recent floods across Australia. Do you agree or disagree with each of the following actions they have taken?
| Total agree | Total disagree | Strongly agree | Agree | Disagree | Strongly disagree | Don’t know | |
| A levy on taxpayers earning over $50,000 | 44% | 50% | 14% | 30% | 23% | 27% | 7% |
| Scrapped cash for clunkers (Grants for owners of old cars to buy new cars) | 59% | 29% | 24% | 35% | 18% | 11% | 11% |
| Scrapped the Green Car innovation fund | 43% | 39% | 16% | 27% | 25% | 14% | 17% |
| Deferred grants for development of carbon capture and storage technology | 45% | 40% | 17% | 28% | 26% | 14% | 16% |
| Deferred or capped grants for solar energy programs | 32% | 56% | 10% | 22% | 33% | 23% | 12% |
| Scrapped Higher Education Capital Development Pool (for building new tertiary education centres) | 31% | 51% | 9% | 22% | 33% | 18% | 17% |
Respondents were more likely to agree with the Government decisions to scrap cash for clunkers (59% agree/29% disagree), scrap the Green Car innovation fund (43%/39%) and defer grants for development of carbon capture and storage technology (45%/40%).
However, they tended to disagree with the levy on taxpayers earning over $50,000 (50% disagree/44% agree), defer or cap grants for solar energy programs (56%/32%) and scrap Higher Education Capital Development Pool (51%/31%).
70% of Labor voters agreed with the levy and 26% disagreed while Coalition supporters disagreed 69% to 24% agreed. Older respondents were more likely to agree with the levy – 50% of those aged 45+ agreed and 43% disagreed. For those aged under 45, 38% agreed and 53% disagreed.
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Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the Government introducing a one-off levy on taxpayers to pay for damage caused by the recent floods? (Question commissioned by Network Ten)
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Queensland | NSW | Victoria | Other states | |
| Total approve | 39% | 63% | 23% | 48% | 46% | 35% | 37% | 43% |
| Total disapprove | 53% | 31% | 73% | 41% | 46% | 57% | 56% | 51% |
| Strongly approve | 12% | 24% | 3% | 19% | 11% | 10% | 12% | 14% |
| Approve | 27% | 39% | 20% | 29% | 35% | 25% | 25% | 27% |
| Disapprove | 24% | 20% | 28% | 21% | 21% | 25% | 27% | 22% |
| Strongly disapprove | 29% | 11% | 45% | 20% | 25% | 32% | 29% | 29% |
| Don’t know | 8% | 6% | 5% | 10% | 9% | 8% | 6% | 9% |
39% approved of the Government introducing a one-off levy on taxpayers to pay for damage caused by the recent floods and 53% disapproved.
63% of Labor voters approved but Liberal/National voters strongly disapproved (73%).
Queensland residents were more likely to approve than residents of other states.
By income, those earning under $52,000 per year disapproved 47% to 44% approved and those earning over $52,000 disapproved 57% to 38% approved.
Question commissioned by Ten network.