{"id":4279,"date":"2018-05-25T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/voters-want-gas-tax-repealed-have-mixed-feelings-about-high-speed-rail-before-knowing-estimated-costs\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T11:08:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T18:08:08","slug":"poll-on-gas-tax-repeal-high-speed-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/poll-on-gas-tax-repeal-high-speed-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters want gas tax repealed, have mixed feelings about high-speed rail before knowing estimated costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n            \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-2814-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-2814-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Voters want gas tax repealed, have mixed feelings about high-speed rail before knowing estimated costs\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  According to the latest USC Dornsife\/L.A. Times Poll, most California voters would like to repeal the recent gas tax. Many are also not pleased with the cost of the high-speed rail project that will connect L.A. and the Bay Area.\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=faculty\">Faculty<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>Voters want gas tax repealed, have mixed feelings about high-speed rail before knowing estimated costs<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  A new USC Dornsife\/L.A. Times Poll reveals how California voters feel about hot-button issues for the 2018 primary and general elections and a proposal to amend Proposition 13.\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a href=\"mailto:communication@dornsife.usc.edu\">Jim Key<\/a><\/strong>\n    \n          <span class=\"post-date-field\">May 25, 2018<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--social-share \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--social-share\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n    <span class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" style=\"line-height: 32px;\">\n      <span class=\"title\">\n        Share\n      <\/span>\n                        <a class=\"a2a_button_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/#copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Link\">\n            <span class=\"a2a_svg a2a_s__default 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Trump&rsquo;s disapproval rating in the poll was 69 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;With only 38 percent support from voters, the gas tax would almost certainly be dead if a measure to repeal it qualifies,&rdquo; said <a href=\"https:\/\/pressroom.usc.edu\/?s=shrum&amp;cat=3\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Shrum<\/a>, director of the USC Dornsife College&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/unruh\/polls\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics<\/a>. &ldquo;The strongest base of supporters for the tax are Democrats, and not even a majority of them would vote to keep it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of Democrats support the gasoline tax law that last year began adding 12 cents per gallon at the pump to fund road and bridge repairs, while 40 percent would repeal it. Only 12 percent of Republicans want to keep it. Almost 10 percent say they haven&rsquo;t heard enough to say how they&rsquo;d vote.<\/p>\n<p>Proponents of the repeal say they&rsquo;ve collected more than enough signatures to qualify the proposed measure for a vote in the November 2018 general election.<\/p>\n<p>The USC Dornsife\/Los Angeles Times poll of 835 adult residents of California was conducted online April 18 &ndash; May 18 in English and Spanish. It included 691 registered voters who are members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cesr.usc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Economic and Social Research<\/a>&rsquo;s Understanding America Study (UAS), a probability-based internet panel. The overall margin of sampling error is +\/- 4 percentage points for registered voters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/2810\/gavin-newsom-california-candidates-la-times-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\">Results released<\/a> earlier this week from the USC Dornsife\/<i>L.A. Times<\/i> poll showed where voters stood on the race for governor and U.S. Senate, the new federal tax law and Affordable Care Act, and how Congressional votes on those issues could impact re-election hopes of incumbents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>High-speed rail? Mixed feelings until learning costs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of registered voters said they support the high-speed rail project connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco, a signature initiative of Gov. Jerry Brown, while 44 percent opposed it. But after they were told the project costs could reach $77 billion &mdash; twice the original estimate &mdash; before it&rsquo;s finished in 2033, nearly half the voters said they would stop it, about one-third would continue construction, and a significant number &mdash; 20 percent &mdash; said they don&rsquo;t know.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Would voters be more supportive if they knew that some of the $77 billion was from private sources and not tax dollars? I don&rsquo;t know,&rdquo; said Shrum. &ldquo;Some of the opposition may also be related to the longtime horizon to complete it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, even after learning of the increased cost to finish it, are nearly evenly split over continuing or stopping construction of the rail, 41 percent to 38 percent. About two-thirds of GOP voters would stop it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Support for Prop. 13 change<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the years, activists and some politicians have talked about amending Proposition 13, California&rsquo;s landmark 1978 ballot measure that reduced state property taxes and limited the rate of increase. Just as this poll ended, a measure qualified for the November 2020 ballot that would dramatically expand Prop. 13&rsquo;s tax benefits for longtime homeowners.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A proposal supported by some Democratic activists and leaders that has not qualified as a ballot measure would amend Prop. 13 to exclude commercial and big business properties, taxing them based on their actual market value. More than half of registered voters, 54 percent, would support this change and 20 percent would oppose it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>View the results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The USC Dornsife\/Los Angeles Times Poll is a partnership of the <i>Los Angeles Times<\/i> and two USC Dornsife institutions: the Unruh Institute and the Center for Economic and Social Research.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, results and methodology are available on the Unruh Institute&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/unruh\/polls\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>. For more information about the Center for Economic and Social Research Understanding America Study internet panel, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/uasdata.usc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new USC Dornsife\/L.A. 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