From lev.lafayette at isocracy.org Wed Nov 2 00:58:10 2011 From: lev.lafayette at isocracy.org (lev.lafayette at isocracy.org) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 11:58:10 +1100 Subject: [Land-and-Labor] Mining tax gets backing from most taxpayers Message-ID: It seems that common sense is beginning to prevail.. THE Labor Party will introduce legislation for its mining tax today buoyed by internal polling that shows the vast majority of voters believe average Australians are not benefiting from the minerals boom. Internal research conducted for the ALP by UMR Research, a full copy of which has been obtained by the Herald, shows 68 per cent believe average Australians are not benefiting from the boom while only 21 per cent think they are. Despite the mining tax being opposed by the Coalition, there was little difference among types of voters. The poll found 64 per cent of Labor voters, 67 per cent of Coalition voters and 72 per cent of Greens voters agreed that average Australians were not benefiting. So too did 73 per cent of voters in Queensland and 67 per cent in Western Australia, the two largest mining states. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/mining-tax-gets-backing-from-most-taxpayers-20111101-1mtxh.html#ixzz1cVO12aHo