Narrative Breaker: 76% Favor Government Spending Cut Across the Board

Washington politicians and their mainstream media allies would like to convince the commonsense folks of America that spending without end is a new and fabulous idea and everything will work out awesome for the economy if we just tax the rich. According to a Politico/GWU/Battleground poll, more than three out of four Americans are like, “Whatever.”

More precisely, about six out of ten adults strongly favor government spending cuts (now!) and almost two out of ten go along with the idea (“yeah, dude, it’s probably for the best.”) The other quarter of the country is all about “screw it, let’s see how far we can push this sucker.” (Bear with the new colloquial style, trying to reach out to the kids here.)(Read More)