Posted on 09/23/2009 1:20:41 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Americans believe Washington squanders half of every tax dollar.
BY STEPHEN MOORE
If you want to know why Americans are so fearful of a government takeover of the health-care system, take a look at the results of a new Gallup poll on government waste released Sept. 15. One question posed was: "Of every tax dollar that goes to Washington, D.C., how many cents of each dollar would you say is wasted?" Gallup found that the mean response was 50 cents. With Uncle Sam spending just shy of $4 trillion this year, that means the public believes that $2 trillion is wasted.
In a separate poll released on Monday, Gallup found that nearly twice as many Americans believe that there is "too much government regulation of business and industry" as believe there is "too little" (45% to 24%).
Perhaps most significantly, in both of these polls Gallup found that skepticism about government's effectiveness is the highest it's been in decades. "Perceptions of federal waste were significantly lower 30 years ago than today," say the Gallup researchers. Even when Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980 with the help of the antigovernment revolt of that era, Americans believed only 40 cents of every dollar was wasted, according to Gallup.
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Now there's a powerful voter backlash against the Bush-Obama agenda of bailouts, stimulus plans and trillion dollar-plus deficits. The rage began with the bank bailouts last fall. It grew with the $787 billion stimulus bill...
The Washington establishment is dead wrong: Americans don't want bipartisan cooperation in supersizing the government right now...
But the polling suggests something even bigger: Americans are in the mood for a radical shrinking of government in order to reduce debt and waste...
PURGE THE RINOS! NO MORE BUSHES! NO MORE MCCAINS! NO MORE ROMNEYS! IMPEACH OBAMA! THROW THE BUMS OUT!
WSJ
STOP SAYING AMERICANS ARE FEARFUL.
WE ARE MAD AS HELL.
With about 20 million out of work, the governments tax revenues have really been cut. You’d think they would see that. Maybe they do but don’t care. They’ll just tax the remaining that still have jobs. This makes it harder for Obama to give more money to those that have refused to work for years. It just means that these people will have to steal more.
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The Washington establishment is dead wrong: Americans don't want bipartisan cooperation in supersizing the government right now... Did you hear that, McQueeg, you treasonous bastard? |
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So if you assume those wasted dollars go into someone’s pocket it’s clear you need to be in government if you want to grow rich in the future. The handwriting is on the wall.
That's still pretty optimistic, but a consensus on 50% waste is a positive sign.
Vote out every person who does not have a history of cutting back the size of government. Or consistently voting against its getting any bigger. We need every “Chainsaw Al” we can get. Because the only way we will get smaller government is to make it smaller. Because it won’t “just happen.” It will take aggressive, targeted cuts to get it back to where it should be. We have to continue our pressure until we see Congress going into the right direction.
First on the agenda should be a law that allows Congress only to only spend 10% of our gross adjusted incomes.
Over the years of the various studies that researched the money inflow to the money outflow percentages that the federal government achieves, I have never seen any return higher than $.025 on the dollar.
Apparently, “Washington” is happy spending your grand-children’s money.
***So if you assume those wasted dollars go into someone’s pocket it’s clear you need to be in government if you want to grow rich in the future. The handwriting is on the wall.***
Oh, I’ve no doubt that some pols are dishonest, but there’s another reason why the government wastes money. It’s been said often that by the time the money spent by government goes through multiple offices with multiple duplication of work, 90 cents of every dollar is wasted. Private companies are much more concerned with lean workforce and efficient spending of money.
Another BIG reason to stop govt. healthcare reform:
http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2009/09/23/hr_3200_will_collapse_global_medicine_97423.html
This has just been posted on FRP.
that many hands in the cookie jar is asking for 'losses'...
not to mention that its a helluva easier to spend somebody elses money than your own, w/o ever thinking about the bang fer the buck...
but just 'forget' about a grand worth of taxable income and its the firing squad for a mere peasant...
H. R. 3200 Will Collapse Global Medicine
That is the ultimate scary story.
You forgot the left wing pseudo non profits from the Tides Foundation to Acorn in the redistribution of wealth.
.... to #16, not very far OT; it's our $.
I used to like Steven Moore when he was the Pres of The Club For Growth. He wrote a pro-illegal alien editorial in the WSJ editorial page and I quit The Club For Growth.
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