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发帖数: 29846 | 1 58%美国选民认为宁可忍受联邦政府部分关闭也要达成削减开支协议，33%宁可以维持
2010年开支水平为代价避免政府关闭
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general
As Republicans and Democrats in Congress haggle over the budget, most voters
would rather have a partial shutdown of the federal government than keep
its spending at current levels.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 33% of
Likely U.S. Voters would rather have Congress avoid a government shutdown by
authorizing spending at the same levels as last year. Fifty-eight percent (
58%) says it’s better to have a partial shutdown until Democrats and
Republicans can agree on what spending to cut. (To see survey question
wording, click here.)
The partisan differences are striking. Fifty-eight percent (58%) of
Democrats prefer avoiding a shutdown by going with current spending levels.
But 80% of Republicans -- and 59% of voters not affiliated with either major
party -- think a shutdown is a better option until the two sides can agree
on spending cuts.
Congress never passed a budget for 2011 but authorized spending for a few
months. That authorization will expire soon, and Congress must act quickly
or some federal government services could be shut down. Payments for things
like Social Security, Medicare and unemployment benefits would continue,
however.
A plurality (48%) of all voters believe that a partial government shutdown
would be bad for the economy. Twenty-five percent (25%) say a shutdown would
be good for the country economically, while 15% say it would have no impact.
Democrats are worried about the economic impact of a partial government
shutdown. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of those in the president’s party say a
shutdown would be bad for the economy. However, Republicans and unaffiliated
voters are evenly divided on the topic with nearly as many saying a
shutdown would be good for the economy as bad.
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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on February 24-25, 2011 by
Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points
with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys
is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
In general, just 27% of all voters think Congress should now authorize
spending for 2011 at the same levels as last year. Six percent (6%) want
more government spending, but 61% say Congress should authorize less
spending that there was the year before.
The majority of voters for years have said that cutting taxes and reducing
government spending are best for the economy.
The federal government was last partially shutdown for five days in 1995 and
21 days in 1996. In both cases, CNN reports, the stock market moved higher
on the news.
Republicans want to cut $57 billion more out of the federal budget for the
current year than Democrats do. As negotiations continue on a long-term
agreement, the two sides on Friday agreed to a two-week budget extension
that includes $4 billion in cuts.
Eighty-four percent (84%) of voters say they are following news reports
about the federal budget debate at least somewhat closely, with 49% who are
following Very Closely.
Forty-five percent (45%) of Democrats think Congress should authorize
spending at the same levels as last year, while another 14% think there
should be more spending. Eighty-one percent (81%) of Republicans and 67% of
unaffiliated voters believe Congress should approve less spending than there
was the year before.
This is another issue that the Political Class and Mainstream voters don’t
see eye-to-eye on. Seventy-six percent (76%) of those in the Political
Class would rather see spending continue at current levels to avoid a
shutdown; 70% of Mainstream voters prefer a shutdown until Democrats and
Republicans can agree on spending cuts.
Voters have consistently rated cutting the federal deficit in half by the
end of his first term as the more important of several budget priorities the
president listed early in 2009, but few voters expect him to hit his goal.
The documents the White House includes with the president's $3.7 trillion
proposed budget for 2012 project that government spending will top $4
trillion in the next two to three years, but most voters aren't aware of
that increase amidst all the talk of spending cuts.
Fifty-five percent (55%) of voters say, generally speaking, that the
president’s new budget proposal cuts government spending too little, but
despite House Republican plans to cut substantially more, a plurality of
voters don’t think the GOP goes far enough either.
Then again, 70% of voters think voters are more willing to make the hard
choices needed to reduce federal spending than politicians are.
Though a plurality still gives Congress a poor grade, voters are showing
slightly less negativity towards the legislators than they have in several
years. Now that the new Congress is fully settled in, favorability ratings
have dropped for all of the top leaders except House Speaker John Boehner.
Voters now trust the GOP more than Democrats on all 10 of the most important
issues regularly surveyed by Rasmussen Reports including the economy and
taxes. |
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