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In reply to the discussion: The Wealthy Have 'Worked Hard' And Deserve To Keep Their Money [View all]Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)I find myself doing that the few times I've ever taken a phone poll, even if I didn't recognize it as such then. I just didn't like they way they seemed to be trying to pigeonhole answers and I have deliberately answered the opposite way I may have if I didn't think it through first because I was wary of how my answer might be "used".
Once at the DMV I was approached outside by a pollster asking If I was "concerned about my taxes going up". I asked him to clarify. Turns out he was a tool for a group that was ferociously opposed to building a planned light rail system. You know the type: The "we don't need no trains, that's the things big bad cities up north have, we'll can just cover the entire county in asphalt and get around in our SUVs" goons. Anyway, I said that I was more than happy to pay a tax for the building of a light rail system. In actuality it turned out to be a 1 percent increase in the sales tax. It was subsequently built, and it's great. But their asses are still chapped over it.