Questions - Small Business - August 13-14, 2011
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National Survey of 1,000 Likely
Voters
Conducted August 13-14, 2011
By Rasmussen Reports
1*Do most
small businesses get started with personal savings, bank loans or money from
outside investors?
2* Suppose
someone wants to start a new small business but cannot obtain financing from
investors or banks. Should the federal government loan money to people who want
to start a business but can’t find financing in the private sector?
3* Okay,
sometimes the government provides loan guarantees to banks that make risky
loans. This encourages banks to make more loans because the government will
cover just about all of their losses. Generally speaking, should the
government provide loan guarantees so that banks will make riskier loans?
4* Suppose
someone looking to start their own small business cannot obtain financing from
banks. Should the federal government provide loan guarantees so that banks will
lend them the money?
5* What
would do more to help small businesses - having the government provide loans to
people who cannot get financing on their own or reducing government regulations
and taxes?
NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence