{"id":4028,"date":"2008-12-01T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/12\/most-voters-in-poll-say-cuts-andor-tax-hike-needed\/"},"modified":"2008-12-01T00:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T06:55:00","slug":"most-voters-in-poll-say-cuts-andor-tax-hike-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/12\/most-voters-in-poll-say-cuts-andor-tax-hike-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Most voters in poll say cuts and\/or tax hike needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The majority of those who voted in last week\u2019s non-scientific poll on this site said the Legislature is going to have to take some drastic measures to deal with the state\u2019s revenue shortfall and balance the budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Of 132 voters, 48, or 36 percent, said the Legislature is going to have to cut services, jobs and other areas in the budget and raise takes. Meanwhile, 39, or 30 percent, said the Legislature will have to implement across-the-board cuts but not raise taxes; 17, or 13 percent, said the Legislature will have to raise taxes but not make budgetary cuts; nine, or 7 percent, said it will have to find ways to trim the budget that don\u2019t include cutting services and jobs; eight, or 6 percent, said it will have to cut services only; six, or 5 percent, said it will have to cut jobs only, and five, or 4 percent, said the Legislature won\u2019t have to do anything mentioned above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Don\u2019t forget to vote in this week\u2019s poll, located at the top of the right column on this page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of those who voted in last week\u2019s non-scientific poll on this site said the Legislature is going to have to take some drastic measures to deal with the state\u2019s revenue shortfall and balance the budget. Of 132 voters, 48, or 36 percent, said the Legislature is going to have to cut services, jobs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}