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In general, are you satisfied with the Budget announced by the Financial Secretary?

** The mean value is calculated by quantifying all individual responses into 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 marks according to their degree of positive level, where 1 is the lowest and 5 the highest, and then calculate the sample mean.

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* Excluding those who had not heard of the Budget / were not clear about the Budget content

Please rate your level of satisfaction with the Budget delivered by John Tsang, with 0 indicating absolutely dissatisfied, 100 indicating absolutely satisfied and 50 indicating half-half. How will you rate this year's Budget?

* Excluding those who had not heard of the Budget / were not clear about the Budget content

Overall speaking, are you satisfied with the government's strategy in monetary arrangement?

Measures suggested by the Financial Secretary to relieve people’s stress brought by the economic downturn include: waiving rates for 2013–14, subject to a ceiling of $1,500 per quarter, granting each residential electricity account a subsidy of $1,800, paying two months’ rent for public housing tenants, increasing the child allowance, granting an extra-month allowance to CSSA recipients and the Old Age Living Allowance, and reducing salaries tax by 75%, subject to a ceiling of $10,000. Do you think these measures are enough?

Financial Secretary John Tsang suggested the injection for several funds and programmes, which involved over 4-billion-dollar public fund, and included $15 billion injection into the Community Care Fund and another $15 billion injection into the Employees Retraining Board. Are you satisfied with this arrangement?

Financial Secretary John Tsang gave a grant of $6,000 to each citizen aged 18 or above two years ago, yet such a grant did not appear last year and this year. Are you satisfied with this arrangement?

There is a saying that the budget plan this year was “no merits and no demerits, do less and fewer mistakes”. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this saying?

Overall speaking, do you think the tax system in Hong Kong is fair or unfair?

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Then, do you think the distribution of wealth in Hong Kong is reasonable or unreasonable?

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