{"id":9498,"date":"2011-04-29T16:25:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T20:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9498"},"modified":"2011-04-29T16:25:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T20:25:22","slug":"gallup-73-22-majority-blames-deficit-on-too-much-spending-not-insufficient-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9498\/gallup-73-22-majority-blames-deficit-on-too-much-spending-not-insufficient-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallup:  73%-22% Majority Blames Deficit on Too Much Spending, Not Insufficient Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s more encouraging news:\u00a0 Americans are &#8220;getting it&#8221; on the issue of federal deficits and debt.\u00a0 According to a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/147338\/Americans-Blame-Wasteful-Government-Spending-Deficit.aspx?utm_source=alert&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=syndication&amp;utm_content=plaintextlink&amp;utm_term=All\" target=\"_blank\">Gallup survey<\/a>, an overwhelming 73% to 22% majority blames excess spending for the deficit, not insufficient taxation.\u00a0 Barack Obama and his liberal apologists seek to blame &#8220;tax cuts for the rich&#8221; and insufficient revenues as the problem.\u00a0 But as illustrated by the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s newly-released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/budgetchartbook\/growth-federal-spending-revenue\" target=\"_blank\">2011 Budget Chart Book<\/a>, our budget would still be approximately balanced if spending merely returned to early 2000s levels.\u00a0 Does any serious person contend that government was too small in the first half of the 2000s, that government didn&#8217;t spend enough, that the poor and hungry were somehow cast out on the cold streets, that bureaucrats went unpaid?\u00a0 Of course not.\u00a0 The problem is explosive spending growth.\u00a0 Obama oversaw an <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/128047-ryan-spending-up-84-percent-under-obama\" target=\"_blank\">84% increase<\/a> in domestic discretionary spending, including his failed &#8220;stimulus,&#8221; in just his first two years.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Americans see through his attempt to demand even more taxpayer dollars to feed the insatiable leviathan he hopes to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s more encouraging news:\u00a0 Americans are &#8220;getting it&#8221; on the issue of federal deficits and debt.\u00a0 According to a new Gallup survey, an overwhelming 73% to 22% majority blames excess spending for the deficit, not insufficient taxation.\u00a0 Barack Obama and his liberal apologists seek to blame &#8220;tax cuts for the rich&#8221; and insufficient revenues as [&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":[914,143,70,84,40,81,59,19,102,842,24,35,61,179,71],"class_list":["post-9498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-barack-obama","tag-budget","tag-congress","tag-congressional-budget-office","tag-debt","tag-deficit","tag-economy","tag-free-market","tag-gallup","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-spending","tag-stimulus","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498","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=9498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9499,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions\/9499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}