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Toplines - Woodford Foundation - August 30-31, 2022

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National Survey of 1,032 Likely Voters

Conducted August 30-31, 2022

By Rasmussen Reports and the Woodford Foundation

 

 

End “corporate welfare.”  Government should not give handouts to businesses.

 

62%     Agree

20%     Disagree

18%     Not sure

 

Government should remove barriers to international free trade.
           

42%     Agree

29%     Disagree

29%     Not sure

 

People should be able to control their own retirement.  Social Security should be privatized.

 

46%     Agree

41%     Disagree

13%     Not sure

 

Government welfare should be replaced with private charity.

 

34%     Agree

50%     Disagree

16%     Not sure

 

Taxes and government spending should be cut by 50% or more.

 

54%     Agree

32%     Disagree

14%     Not sure

 

United States Department of Defense spending should be maintained at 4% of Gross Domestic Product.

 

            54%     Agree

17%     Disagree

29%     Not sure

 

The U.S. Department of Education should be eliminated.

 

35%     Agree

53%     Disagree

12%     Not sure

 

Health Savings Accounts should replace Medicare and Medicaid.

 

27%     Agree

56%     Disagree

18%     Not sure

 

The Department of Agriculture should be eliminated.

 

19%     Agree

67%     Disagree

14%     Not sure

 

Global warming is not a threat to the world.

 

36%     Agree

55%     Disagree

8%       Not sure

 

The Endangered Species Act should be repealed.

 

21%     Agree

58%     Disagree

21%     Not sure

 

Obamacare should be repealed.

 

            46%     Agree

44%     Disagree

11%     Not sure


Government should do much less, and allow people to work things out voluntarily among themselves.

 

            49%     Agree

38%     Disagree

13%     Not sure

 

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence