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Poll: 53% of Utahns pick higher taxes instead of budget cuts
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| News Date | Thursday, January 21, 2010 11:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Lisa Riley Roche
and Arthur Raymond
Deseret News
Published: Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010 12:48 a.m. MST
Utahns are willing to pay higher taxes to avoid additional state budget cuts, a new Deseret News/KSL-TV poll shows.
The results come as GOP Gov. Gary Herbert is calling for lawmakers to balance an estimated $700 million budget shortfall without raising taxes, and as lawmakers are predicting another round of severe cuts.
But 53 percent of Utahns surveyed by Dan Jones & Associates said they would rather pay more in taxes than see education, human services and other state programs cut for a second year in a row.
And they supported increases in a range of taxes — on income, tobacco and alcohol as well as on coal, oil and natural gas. There were only two hikes a majority of poll respondents wouldn't support. The first is on gas. They also don't want to restore the state's share of sales tax on food.
Lawmakers will consider at least some tax increases this session, acknowledged Senate President Michael Waddoups, R-Taylorsville. But some taxes are off the table.
"I can guarantee you, we're not going to have any increase in the income tax," he said, or sales taxes. Nor will lawmakers require an increase in locally assessed property taxes.
House Majority Leader Kevin Garn, R-Layton, agreed. |
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