I just thought of two polls.
The first poll:
"Do you think it is ethical to vote for policies which take money from the poor and give it to the rich?"
The second poll:
"Do you think it is ethical to vote for policies which take money from the rich and give it to the poor?"
— which is really the first poll that I thought of, because it seemed like "Do you think that it is ethical to steal from the rich?" would not give a useful result, because the reasonable interpretation is that it's about an action which is illegal and usually dishonest (I was recently reminded of a rare example where someone stole money and posted a video online about what they had done), whereas voting is not illegal for most people.
Obviously, the objective is to show a difference in responses between these two questions; if the second poll (in which most people are expected to answer 'yes') was posted first, it would probably increase the number of 'yes' responses in the other poll, making the results of the two polls more similar.
(Note that stupid people might criticize someone who posted these polls, as they might interpret the order as intended to make more people answer 'no' in the second poll. Or in general, they might criticize these polls drawing attention to the fact that government policies do take money from the rich and give it to the poor, as they might feel this contributes to the weakening of these policies.)
(Confounding factor with these polls: most people do not vote for policies as in a democracy, but rather vote for representatives as in a republic, and a representative voting in a certain way could be seen as unethical if they
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