{"id":15524,"date":"2012-08-16T17:39:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T21:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15524"},"modified":"2012-08-16T17:44:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T21:44:29","slug":"pew-research-independents-republicans-agree-on-government-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15524\/pew-research-independents-republicans-agree-on-government-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pew Research:   Independents and Republicans Agree Government Regulation Does More Harm Than Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the words of the Pew Research Center, &#8220;No issue relating to business is more politically divisive than the impact of government regulation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to a new Pew <a href=\"http:\/\/pewresearch.org\/databank\/dailynumber\/?NumberID=1562&amp;?src=prc-newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">survey<\/a>, 76% of Republicans believe that government regulation of business tends to do more harm than good, but only 41% of Democrats agree.\u00a0 That&#8217;s an enormous 35% difference, but the poll reveals something even more interesting.\u00a0 Namely, 58% of independents side with Republicans on that question, not Democrats.\u00a0 Another interesting point from the survey, according to Pew:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fully 72% of Americans agree that &#8216;the strength of this country today is  based on the success of American business.&#8217; This opinion has endured,  largely unchanged, for the past quarter century.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s bad news for Barack &#8220;You Didn&#8217;t Build That!&#8221; Obama and his class warfare campaign theme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the words of the Pew Research Center, &#8220;No issue relating to business is more politically divisive than the impact of government regulation.&#8221; According to a new Pew survey, 76% of Republicans believe that government regulation of business tends to do more harm than good, but only 41% of Democrats agree.\u00a0 That&#8217;s an enormous 35% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1592,102,24,347,300,3764],"class_list":["post-15524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-business","tag-free-market","tag-obama","tag-pew","tag-regulation","tag-you-didnt-build-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15528,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15524\/revisions\/15528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}