FDU PublicMind - April 18, 2005 Release

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Question: Some people have suggested that the best way to keep property taxes under control is to make changes in the state constitution. How much have you read or heard about holding a Constitutional Convention that would propose changes to control property taxes…?
	All	Con- servatives	Mod- erates	Lib- erals	Dem	Ind	Rep	All: Jan 05
Quite a lot	8%	7	8	9	8	11	6	7%
Some	16%	18	21	12	15	16	19	12%
A little	26%	25	28	26	25	26	29	26%
Nothing at all	48%	48	42	52	52	46	45	54%
Don’t know (vol)	2%	2	2	1	1	2	2	1%

Question: Do you think it’s a good idea or a bad idea for New Jersey to have a Constitutional Convention to try to deal with property taxes?
	All	Con- servatives	Mod- erates	Lib- erals	Dem	Ind	Rep	All: January 2005
Good idea	61%	65	56	60	64	53	60	66%
Bad idea	22%	22	26	19	18	25	25	16%
Don’t know (vol)	18%	14	18	20	17	22	16	18%

Do you think it’s a good idea or a bad idea for New Jersey to have a Constitutional Convention to try to deal with property taxes?
		How much have you read or heard about holding a Constitutional Convention that would propose changes to control property taxes…?
	All	Quite a lot	Some	Just a little	Nothing at all
Good idea	61%	51	58	62	62
Bad idea	22%	38	32	21	17
Don’t know (vol)	18%	11	11	18	21

Question: Some people say a Constitutional Convention for New Jersey needs to focus only on taxes and should not get sidetracked dealing with other issues. Others say a Constitutional Convention should deal with issues that affect state spending as well as the property tax issue. Which comes closest to your position?
	All	Dem	Ind.	Rep.
Focus only on taxes	21%	21	21	20
Deal with other issues that affect state spending	70%	70	63	74
Don’t know (vol)	8%	7	15	6

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