SOUTHERN ARIZONA – Take all polls with a grain of salt, but a new Rasmussen telephone survey found that only 8% of those polled believe that taxpayers benefited more than Wall Street from the recent federal government bailout spending. 80% of those surveyed find Wall Street, rather than taxpayers, as the main benefactor.
“This marks a notable increase in skepticism from October when 63% saw Wall Street as the chief beneficiary as the first bailout of the financial industry was working its way through Congress,” the report said.
The survey also found that more than half of those surveyed do not believe the federal government spent the bailout money wisely on banks and other financial institutions. These numbers remain consistent from the time the bailout bill was first passed into law.
“Seventy-two percent (72%) of Republicans and 65% of adults not affiliated with either major political party say the bailout funding for banks and other financial institutions was a bad idea. But Democrats are evenly divided over the question.”
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