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FEDERAL
TAX CUTS
Orange County residents are divided on the key fiscal
issue of how to use the federal budget surplus. Only slightly more want
the surplus used for cutting taxes than for funding social programs
(48% to 44%). The local ambivalence about how to use the federal surplus
is similar to the PPIC Statewide Survey in January 2000 and a national
survey by CBS News in 1999. Republicans (69%) are much more likely than
Democrats (32%) to want a tax cut. Independents slightly favor cutting
taxes over increasing social spending (48% to 42%). Latinos are much
more likely than non-Hispanic whites to want the surplus used for social
programs.
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"Which comes
closer to your views: The federal budget surplus should be used
to cut taxes; the federal budget should be used to pay for
social programs." |
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CA |
OC |
Democrats |
Republicans |
Latinos |
N.H.Whites |
| Cut taxes |
48% |
48% |
32% |
69% |
29% |
53% |
| Pay for social
programs |
47 |
44 |
61 |
26 |
62 |
39 |
| Both
(volunteered) |
2 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
| Don't
know |
3 |
5 |
4 |
2 |
8 |
5 |
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