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New Poll Shows Wide Support For Taxing Marcellus Shale Drilling Companies
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A new poll released by Quinnipiac University this week again shows wide support for a tax on Marcellus Shale drilling companies-- 69 percent support, 22 percent oppose.
Three other recent polls had similar results supporting a Marcellus Shale production tax: 70 percent, including 62 percent of Republicans, by Susquehanna Polling; 62 percent in a Franklin & Marshall Poll; 53 percent in a Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin & Associates and Public Opinion Strategies poll which also found 87 percent supported dedicating a significant portion of a Marcellus tax to conservation programs to protect land, water and wildlife.
The same poll also gauged the public's support/opposition for budget cutting/saving measures--
-- Oppose 50 - 43 percent state worker layoffs;
-- Oppose 53 - 36 percent selling or leasing the Pennsylvania Turnpike;
-- Support 64 - 28 percent selling state liquor stores;
-- Oppose 64 - 32 percent cutting state funding for state and state-related universities; and
-- Support 68 - 27 percent freezing the wages of state employees.
While 39 percent of Pennsylvania voters approve of the job Gov. Tom Corbett is doing, 37 percent disapprove, a statistical tie, according to the new Quinnipiac University poll. This is a big jump in his negative ratings from a 39 - 11 percent job approval rating in a February 16 survey.
Pennsylvania voters say 50 - 39 percent that Gov. Corbett's budget-cutting proposals are unfair to people like them, the independent Quinnipiac University survey finds.
There is a large gender gap as men say the cuts are fair 45 - 43 percent, a tie, while women say unfair 55 - 34 percent. Republicans say 59 - 27 percent the cuts are fair, but Democrats say unfair 69 - 22 percent and independent voters say unfair 47 - 41 percent.
Still, voters say 55 - 39 percent that balancing the state budget should be done by spending cuts only and not by a combination of tax hikes and spending cuts.
Detailed poll results are available online.
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5/2/2011 |
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