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62% Claim They Favor Across-the-Board Spending Cuts
by Bryan Preston
January 2, 2013
If this Rasmussen poll reflected reality, our politics would be entirely rearranged.
62% Favor Across-the-Board Spending Cuts, But 57% Think Theyre Unlikely
Thats the headline. Heres some of the write-up.
Even as official Washington signs off on a fiscal cliff deal with $1 in spending cuts to every $41 in new taxes, most voters continue to favor across-the-board spending cuts but doubt they are likely to happen. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 39% of Likely U.S. Voters think it is even somewhat likely that government spending will be significantly reduced over the next few years. Fifty-seven percent (57%) see significant spending cuts as unlikely. This includes 11% who believe such cuts are Very Likely in the near future and 20% who say they are Not At All Likely.
Put me in the 20%, because a large number, maybe a majority, of the 62% in the headline are lying.
If 62% really favored spending cuts, we would not have the miserable class of politicians that we have in Washington. Surely some in that 62% live in Sander Levins and Nancy Pelosis districts. Surely some of them even live in Charlie Rangels district.
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