In a message dated 11/04/05 1:34:48 PM Pacific Standard Time, groups.Com
writes:
Bob Dancer writes:
We learned, among other things, that the phrasing on a poll very often
determines the answer. In our culture, the phrase "work both sides of
the fence" is NEVER used in a positive manner. Just the phrasing implies
The general public opinion of a phrase has little effect when you are
polling people who have inside knowledge of what the phrase really means.
Example: is the president' s reply to the statement that gay's feel slighted that
they cannot inherit "That's why I am trying to do away with the Estate Tax"
more unrealistic than: The peasants have no bread "then let them eat cake."
General population(Taxs are bad and too complicated) 100% no. Poll tax preparers
who know what the Estate Tax is and what was just said: 100% yes. You should
give the members of this board who worry about the credibility of the software
they buy and the authors they follow a little more credit in knowing what
both sides of the fence means as far as gambling.
However people routinely work for the IRS and then turn
around and sell this "inside knowledge"on how to break the tax
system.Blantantly:they help draft the law while being paid 40g's all the while planing to
find loopholes in the law while representing a large corporation which will pay
them a lot more or you see them on late night TV promising to settle your IRS
debt for pennies on the dollar. Do people worry that this is unethical and they
may well be treated the same way as a customer? Nay its which side of the
fence you are perceived as jumping to which affects sales.
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