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Independents Support More Spending to Help Recovery
Source: Pew Research
While a relatively large proportion of independents express anger over the growing deficit, most (51%) place higher priority on spending more to help the economy recover than on reducing the deficit.
In this regard, the views of independents are closer to those of Democrats than of Republicans; 57% of Democrats give greater priority to spending more to help the economy recover, compared with just 34% of Republicans.
Even among Republicans, however, there is not a great deal of support for cutting spending to reduce the deficit.
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Submitted by Kelly Thomas on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 3:39pm.
Sometimes wise spending is needed and actually helps the economy grow. So maybe we don't have to choose between spending and reducing the deficit. For example, if we spend money wisely on proven at-risk programs (not just throw money at bad programs) to reduce high school drop-out rates, we'll have less people on welfare and more paying taxes. Perhaps most Americans realize that.
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