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Rasmussen Poll: 64% of Americans Prefer Fewer Government Services and Lower Taxes

ApolloSpeaks18 Wrote: May 21, 2012 2:52 PM

No president before Hoover spent more federal funds to jump start the economy. The New Dealers themselves said that Hooverism was the New Deal in embryo. The boom in subprime minority loans started with the insane Clinton/Freddie/Fanny National Homeownership/Affordable Housing Initiative which generated 18 million bad loans that were buddled into all that toxic paper. The housing collapse of 2008 was government driven, government casued rooted directly in the Clinton Adminstrtaion. subprime

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Rasmussen Poll: 64% of Americans Prefer Fewer Government Services and Lower Taxes

Perhaps this explains why more than 50 percent of likely voters – and 25 percent of Democrats – favor repealing President Obama’s health care law.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 64% of Likely U.S. Voters prefer a government with fewer services and lower taxes over one with more services and higher taxes. That's unchanged from last month and consistent with findings in regular surveys since late 2006. Just 25% prefer a government with more services....

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