How would you have voted on this referendum?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

http://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?f=0&fips=27&elect=0&off=50&year=2008

[tmthforu94]

Hm, undecided, but I lean towards no.

[k-onmmunist]

No (suburban)

[SvenssonRS]

No(suburban).

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

As I actually did, I voted yes (urban).

As did 88.05% of my precinct (less than the vote for Obama though, that was a flat 89%)

What I found interesting though is how non-ideological it was otherwise.

[Franzl]

No

[Torie]

No(suburban).

A regressive tax to fund the arts is particularly annoying, as a transfer payment from the less well off to the more well off as a generalization.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Iffy/Lean Yes,

I'm not a huge fan of sales taxes.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

No(suburban).

A regressive tax to fund the arts is particularly annoying, as a transfer payment from the less well off to the more well off as a generalization.

Except it was supported overwhelmingly by the lower classes. Note the results in my precinct. Plus its best county was my old one thanks to overwhelming support by the college kids in the campus precincts with poverty rates of over 25%.

Rural Democrats and teabaggers were against, everyone else in favor. Kind of odd.

[Derek]

only in a year with a surplus where the economy was doing great.

[Holmes]

Yes (rural).

You would think rural people would be for the outdoors preservation part, unless that means something else than what I'm thinking.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

No. Call me a philistine, but I don't think that as a general rule that government should be funding the arts.  (Exceptions include art education as part of the public school curriculum and auditoriums in the public schools that could be used by local performing arts groups.)

[Associate Justice PiT]

     No (urban).

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Yes (rural).

You would think rural people would be for the outdoors preservation part, unless that means something else than what I'm thinking.

Most rural areas did vote for it. The ones that voted against already get tons of subsidies due to state parks and whatnot being there. Hmmm, that could explain a bunch...

[War on Want]

Yes (rural).

Of course I am one of those people who believe strongly in middle class welfare for the arts.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Yes (rural)

I voted yes on it.

[Tuck!]

Yes (urban).

[justW353]

only in a year with a surplus where the economy was doing great.

^^^Pretty much this

I'm not big on public funding for the arts.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

only in a year with a surplus where the economy was doing great.

^^^Pretty much this

I'm not big on public funding for the arts.

It's for 25 years. There's going to be strong economies and recessions during such a period, dumb to base it on the current period.

The whole point of it being the arts and outdoors was basically because supporters of each figured by combining them they could combine urban and rural voters for it. It worked.

[GMantis]

Yes (normal)

[dead0man]

Good Og no.  If the "art" in question is important to the people it will be supported by the people.

[minionofmidas]

Sales taxes are something of a flat tax (bad) but harder to evade than most other taxes rich people are theoretically supposed to pay (very very good).
Of course it sort of depends what articles the state sales tax is being levied on, exactly.

Arts funding... again it depends for whom exactly and how much exactly. I could go onto a long rant here but...

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Good Og no.  If the "art" in question is important to the people it will be supported by the people.

It wasn't just arts funding.

Sales taxes are something of a flat tax (bad) but harder to evade than most other taxes rich people are theoretically supposed to pay (very very good).
Of course it sort of depends what articles the state sales tax is being levied on, exactly.

Food and clothing are exempt from the Minnesota sales tax for the record.

[Free Palestine]

People voting in a referendum to increase taxation?  I'm shocked.  Here in California, such a referendum would be defeated by a huge margin, and anybody who supported the measure would be crucified.

[perdedor]

No (urban)

As an artist, I don't like the idea of the government being involved in the arts in any nature.