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EDITORIAL: Taxes & Polls 

Polls show voters will support higher taxes to pay for this or that. On Election Day, victory goes to the candidate who says no to taxes. . .

A crucial reason for the apparent contradiction could be that while the electorate expresses its willingness to decide for itself to raise taxes (and to specify the purposes), it does not trust politicians to make the call. To the aware voter, the politician who endorses a specific tax hike is the politician who wants to raise taxes generally, too.

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