{"id":25587,"date":"2020-05-26T12:40:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T16:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=25587"},"modified":"2020-05-26T12:43:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T16:43:08","slug":"poll-americans-overwhelmingly-agree-with-trumps-pandemic-deregulation-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25587\/poll-americans-overwhelmingly-agree-with-trumps-pandemic-deregulation-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll:  Americans Overwhelmingly Agree with Trump&#8217;s Pandemic Deregulation Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our latest Liberty Update, we highlight the benefits of <a href=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/60-regulation\/5030-proposed-merger-moratorium-would-jeopardize-us-recovery\">the Trump Administration&#8217;s deregulation effort<\/a>, both pre-pandemic and going forward, and how a budding effort among Congressional leftists to impose a moratorium on business mergers would severely undermine that effort.\u00a0 Rasmussen Reports brings excellent news in that regard, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/business\/coronavirus\/most_agree_with_trump_s_temporary_cutback_in_regulating_small_business?utm_campaign=RR05222020DN&amp;utm_source=criticalimpact&amp;utm_medium=email\">large majorities of Americans agree<\/a> with Trump rather than hyper-regulatory leftists:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey shows that 58% of likely U.S. voters approve of Trump&#8217;s decision to temporarily limit government regulation of small businesses to help them bounce back.\u00a0 Just 26% are opposed, while 17% are undecided.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly but perhaps predictably, those on the left stubbornly disagree:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The president&#8217;s action has triggered criticism from some.\u00a0 While 70% of Republicans and 59% of voters not affiliated with either major party agree with the decision to temporarily limit government regulation of small businesses, just 44% of Democrats share that view.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nevertheless, this is welcome news, as Americans maintain faith in what gave us the strongest economy in human history when the coronavirus pandemic suddenly hit &#8211; deregulation and letting America&#8217;s free market forces work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our latest Liberty Update, we highlight the benefits of the Trump Administration&#8217;s deregulation effort, both pre-pandemic and going forward, and how a budding effort among Congressional leftists to impose a moratorium on business mergers would severely undermine that effort.\u00a0 Rasmussen Reports brings excellent news in that regard, as large majorities of Americans agree with [&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":[466,5101,2003,991,894,85,1389,4993],"class_list":["post-25587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-antitrust","tag-coronavirus","tag-deregulation","tag-poll","tag-public-opinion","tag-rasmussen","tag-survey","tag-trump-bump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25587","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=25587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25589,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25587\/revisions\/25589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}