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The Louisiana Budget Project

The Louisiana Budget Project . Is Public Opinion Really Anti-Tax and Pro-Spending Cuts? . Public Opinion, the State Budget, and Taxes and spending. Raising State Government Revenue Distrust & State Government Spending Accountability Dedicated Spending Fairness

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The Louisiana Budget Project

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  1. The Louisiana Budget Project Is Public Opinion Really Anti-Tax and Pro-Spending Cuts?

  2. Public Opinion, the State Budget, and Taxes and spending • Raising State Government Revenue • Distrust & State Government Spending • Accountability • Dedicated Spending • Fairness • Public Aversion to Spending Cuts? • Defining the Choices • Bad Government v. Limited Government • Smart Government v. Limited Government • The Politics of Tax Cuts and the Costs of Jumping Off the Budgetary Cliff

  3. State Budget Politics: Spending cuts and taxes

  4. support for a combination of spending cuts and tax increases (2009 & 2010)

  5. Opinion Split on whether cuts have gone too far or not far enough (2010)

  6. it was a Bad idea to repeal the stelly plan (2010)

  7. State Income and Sales Taxes are Too High and Need to Be Reduced

  8. contingent support for tax increases

  9. Conditional support for gasoline taxes

  10. Unwilling to wield the state budgetary axe: Respondent Preferences for spending cuts

  11. Perceptions of state government waste

  12. Higher education

  13. Concerns Budget Cuts Will Affect the Overall Quality of Academic Programs

  14. State Colleges and Universities Should be Able to Raise Tuition and Fees to Offset Budget Cuts

  15. Health care

  16. Concern Spending Cuts Will Affect the Overall Quality of Public Health Care in Louisiana

  17. Political Consequences

  18. Perceptions of Impact of Budget Cuts on the respondent and their Local Community

  19. Percent of Louisiana Residents Saying the State is Headed in the Right and Wrong Direction, 2007-2010

  20. Percent Very or Somewhat Confident State Government Will Effectively Address Most Important Problem

  21. Conclusions

  22. Louisiana Public Opinion • A “New Louisiana” v. Anti-Tax Sentiment • Framing the Debate • Defining Choices • Bad Government v. Limited Government • Smart Government v. Limited Government • The Political Consequences of “No New Taxes”

  23. About the Louisiana Survey • Barometer of Louisiana public opinion, 2002-2010 • Beginning in 2009, dual frame sampling of landline and cell phone populations • Each survey includes 800-1,000 respondents • The 2010 Louisiana Survey is based 913 total respondents including 510 landline telephone interviews and 403 cell phone interviews (+/- 3.2 margin of error, +/- 4.3 on landline) • Weighted to reflect current population estimates from the American Community Survey and based on NHIS estimates of telephone use.

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