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Questions - Spending Taxpayer Money - February 26-27, 2015

Voters Highly Suspicious of Government Spending
Should The Federal Government Sell Off Some Of Its Land?
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National Survey of 800 Likely Voters
Conducted February 26-27, 2015

By Rasmussen Reports

 

1* Does the federal government spend taxpayers’ money wisely and carefully?

 

2* Which is more to blame for the size of the federal deficit – taxpayers’ unwillingness to pay more in taxes or politicians’ unwillingness to reduce government spending?

 

3* Is there too much or not enough congressional oversight of how the federal government spends taxpayers’ money? Or is the level of oversight about right?

 

4* The federal government owns 28% of the land in the United States. Does the federal government own too much of the land in the United States or not enough? Or is the amount of the land owned by the federal government about right?

 

5* Should the government sell some of the land it owns to reduce the federal debt?

 

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence