by Dan Mitchell | Oct 23, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
According to a new poll from Rasmussen, almost two-thirds of the American people want smaller government and lower taxes while only one-fourth want bigger government and higher taxes. Not surprisingly, the moochers and looters of the governing elite are wildly out of...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 21, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
Gallup just released a poll showing that 46 percent of Americans view the federal government as an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary Americans. My first reaction was to wonder why the number was so low. After all, we have a political elite that...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 19, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
Time for some much-needed positive news. Ordinary taxpayers are slowly but surely figuring out that federal workers are overpaid and underworked. Here are some of the details from the story in the Washington Post. More than half of Americans say they think that...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 12, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
There’s an encouraging new poll from Gallup which reveals that 72 percent of Americans say something negative when asked for a one-word description of the federal government. Here’s the “word cloud” showing the results. As you can see, this is very similar to the...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 14, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
I am pleasantly shocked to see that a healthy majority of respondents favor partial privatization of Social Security. I knew support was reasonably strong several years ago, but I feared that the financial crisis would have made Americans more leery of financial...
