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<H2>California Voters Overwhelmingly Support Raising Taxes on the Wealthy to
Help Balance the Budget</H2>
<H4>March 31st, 2011<!-- by Kristin --> · <A title="View all posts in Issues"
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #ffffff"><A
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #ffffff"></SPAN><BR>A new Tulchin Research poll conducted
on behalf of the California Federation of Teachers finds that California voters
strongly support increasing taxes on the wealthy as a way to balance the state’s
budget without additional cuts to essential services.</P>
<P><SPAN id=more-805></SPAN>Given the recent events in Sacramento that saw
budget negotiations collapse and efforts launched to find a “Plan B,” a recent
statewide survey of likely voters in California has discovered a proposal that
could help solve the state’s budget mess – raising taxes on the wealthy.
Notably, the poll finds overwhelming support from California voters for a
proposal to raise income taxes by 1% on the top 1% of Californians – known as
“1% on the 1%” – in order to help balance the state budget and prevent deeper
cuts to essential services. Specifically, nearly four out of five voters (78%)
support this proposal with more than half of all voters (53%)
<EM><STRONG>strongly</STRONG></EM> supporting it.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: medium"><SPAN
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><STRONG><FONT size=3>Intense Support for
Taxing 1% on the 1%</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P><A
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title="http://www.tulchinresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/California-Statewide-Poll-Results-Memo-4-11.pdf
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color=#3297ad>Read our full analysis here. </FONT></A></P>
<P><A
href="http://www.tulchinresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/California-Statewide-Poll-Results-Slides-4-11.pdf"><FONT
title="http://www.tulchinresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/California-Statewide-Poll-Results-Slides-4-11.pdf
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color=#3297ad>View our slides of the key findings here.</FONT></A></P>
<P>Read the coverage of our poll in both <A
href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/01/MNP21INRMH.DTL"
target=_blank><FONT color=#3297ad>the front page of The San Francisco
Chronicle</FONT></A> and the <A
href="http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/03/teachers-union-calling-for-tax.html"
target=_blank><FONT
title="http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/03/teachers-union-calling-for-tax.html
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color=#3297ad>Sacramento Bee</FONT></A>.</P>
<P><FONT face=Calibri>(FULL ANALYSIS
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