"Sir John Howard" <sirjhoward@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse!
>
> http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,23373433-31037,00.html
>
> ALMOST one in two Australians would prefer planned tax cuts to be
> divided between cash and their retirement funds, a new union poll has
> found.
> The poll indicates 47 per cent of Australians would prefer the $31
> billion in cuts to be halved between cash and superannuation, while 36
> per cent sup****ted full tax cuts, with 17 per cent undecided.
>
> Taken by Roy Morgan Research for the Australian Workers Union, the
> telephone poll found that 51 per cent of working Australians sup****ted
> the split, compared to 33 per cent.
>
> Of the unemployed people surveyed, 41 per cent wanted the full tax
> cuts while 39 per cent wanted a combination.
>
> Australian Workers Union national secretary Paul Howes said the
> findings showed the community was prepared to allow the Federal
> Government to switch its policy from tax cuts to a combination of cash
> and super.
>
> The union had first raised the idea earlier this year, he said.
>
> "The poll shows voters are economically literate and politically
> sophisticated enough to understand that in the fight against inflation
> and rising interest rates the option of increased superannuation
> rather than tax dollars in the pocket is smart stuff," he said.
>
> "Our poll also reveals that Labor sup****ters and union members are
> particularly enthusiastic about this idea."
That's because the Lefties are too dumb to realise they can make voluntary
contributions to Super themselves. Noone's stopping them. Instead they
prefer to back an unmanageable, feel good, Kumbayah, socialist agenda and
not only to back it, but to force their misguided ideas onto everyone else
who has a brain.
>
> The poll found 53 per cent of people earning more than $50,000 a year
> preferred a combination of cash and super, compared to 44 per cent of
> those earning less than $50,000.
>
> The poll was conducted on March 11 and 12 and surveyed 691 people over
> the age of 14.
>
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>
> This sounds suspiciously like a KRudd poll.
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