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Voters Views On The Budget
Voters Views On The Budget - One News Colmar Brunton Poll
Tuesday 31st May, 2011
Fewer than five percent of us feel better off after the budget - that's the finding from the latest ONE News Colmar Brunton poll which shows that while spending cuts weren't popular voters felt they were necessary to help the economy.
In fact just 4% of NZers feel better off. 62% say their circumstances haven't changed and 28% say they are worse off.
Cutting
back KiwiSaver was a big part of the Budget spending cuts
and that wasn't popular with voters. 42% said they
supported the Kiwi Saver changes. 50% opposed them and the
remainder were undecided.
It seems though that voters accept the idea that spending cuts were necessary for the health of the economy. 31% of people thought the Budget would improve the economy. 41% thought it would have no real impact, 20% thought the Budget would have a negative impact on the economy and the remainder were undecided.
Later this week, ONE News releases a Colmar Brunton poll on racism in NZ. Over 1000 people have been asked what amount of racism exists in NZ and whether they think Maori have more, less or the same rights as other NZers?
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