Globe Tax Poll

The homepage of Canada's most widely read newspaper asks the following ridiculous poll question:

Federal finance minister Jim Flaherty says Canadians "are taxed too much" and he plans to cut taxes in his next budget. Would you prefer a tax cut or keeping taxes where they are in order to spend more on programs such as health care and education?

___ Cut taxes
___ Keep taxes where they are

At one time you could at least trust the Globe & Mail's little online poll questions would be posed without glaring biases, but no more.

Maybe it's too hard to eliminate bias and they should embrace it instead. Bias for the left one day and for the right the next. Next time the question would be asked like this:

Federal finance minister Jim Flaherty says Canadians "are taxed too much" and he plans to cut taxes in his next budget. Would you prefer to see tax relief so you can spend your own money as you see fit or would you prefer tax hikes because you believe government knows how to spend your money better than you? Or do you not care because you hardly get taxed anyway?

___ Cut taxes
___ Raise taxes
___ I don't pay taxes--feel free to tax others more!

Jon N

Posted by Jon N at October 17, 2006 12:13 PM