Rasmussen: Voters Lukewarm Towards Eliminating Cabinet Departments to Reduce Spending

[Patricia M. McBride]

This must be changed, because the federal government is deeply involved in things that are NOT things they should be involved in at all. Most people do not realize the federal government should not be involved in some of what they are involved in.  Many of the functions the feds have taken over are STATE issues and should be handled at the STATE level.  How do we make people realize this???

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Texas Congressman and GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul unveiled his latest budget plan that would significantly shrink the size of the federal government by eliminating several cabinet agencies. Paul’s campaign estimates that the plan could cut $1 trillion of the federal budget in one year. Voters aren’t strongly in favor of cutting these agencies, though there is some partisan disagreement.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters shows that a plurality (46%) favors eliminating the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban development department, but nearly as many (42%) are opposed. Another 12% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on October 24-25, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

 

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