People Support Public Workers And Public Services

From a friend at work:

Maybe someone should share this w/ our friends across the table. By almost 2 to 1 (60 - 33), Americans believe collective bargaining rights of public employees should not be reduced, and by a similar margin, people are against ( 56 to 37) reducing pay and benefits of state employees to reduce deficits. Then there is this:

"Asked how they would choose to reduce their state's deficits, those polled preferred tax increases over benefit cuts for state workers by nearly two to one. Given a list of options to reduce the deficit, 40 percent said they would increase taxes, 22 percent chose decreasing the benefits of public employees, 20 percent said they would cut financing for roads and 3 percent said they would cut financing for education."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/us/01poll.html?_r=1&emc=na