[Land-and-Labor] Mining tax gets backing from most taxpayers

[lev.lafayette at isocracy.org]

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