On -
time budgets poll well, after all.
Not exact matches
A GfK Roper
poll sponsored by the Associated Press and conducted around the same
time showed 69 % felt taxes would have to be increased to balance the
budget, compared to just 29 % of Americans who felt it could be balanced without raising taxes.
Voters
polled by Siena gave Cuomo higher marks on everything from job creation to taxes to on -
time budgets.
They point to his passage of an on -
time budget that cut spending without provoking political warfare — a modern miracle, by Albany standards; the governor's historically high approval ratings; and
polling that shows, for the first
time, that a solid majority of New Yorkers support legalizing same - sex marriage.
Populus have a
poll for The
Times that finds lots of voter satisfaction with Alistair Darling's
Budget.
Sky News also reports a majority of people supporting the actual measures contained in the
budget, echoing the YouGov / Telegraph and Populus /
Times polls.
Now, a
poll finds that voters would rather that the
budget be on
time.
The
Times have a new YouGov
poll in tomorrow's paper, conducted after Wednesday's
budget.
On May 15th, voters across New York will go to the
polls to consider school district
budgets and for the first
time, schools will be under the constraint of a property tax cap, and school leaders say they've had to make «sacrifices» to live within those limits.
Focused on delivering an on -
time spending plan — which
polls earlier this month showed 62 percent of voters wanted the timely
budget, stronger ethics laws be damned — the governor and legislators jettisoned plans for a minimum wage hike, the Dream Act and changes to the criminal justice system from the spending plan.
For example, last week's YouGov / Sunday
Times poll, showing a ten - point Conservative lead, the highest since January, could have been dismissed as a rogue
poll, had it not extended a trend detected earlier in the week, with the Tory lead growing steadily from four points to eight points in the days following Alistair Darling's
Budget.
Just appearing on The
Times» website is the first
poll on Alistair Darling's
budget.
YouGov's lastest
poll for the Sunday
Times confirms the main messages from our immediate post-
Budget poll for the Sun: that the
Budget is seen as unfair, that most people disbelieve government assertions that the rich will end up paying more tax, that pensioners are being unfairly penalised — and that Tory support has slipped a little but without boosting Labour's rating.
The issues have almost nothing in common — except the support of a newly elected governor who achieved the rare passage of an on -
time state
budget and whose popularity
polls have swelled to more than 70 percent.