Whose Money Is It, Anyway?

Now, we're not huge fans of " statistically adjusted" opinion polling; especially when it's supposedly national, and most especially when 900 voters are the totality of the sample. None-the-less, we offer for your reflection and consideration -


FOX News/Opinion Dynamics Poll, released April 12, 2006:

How much of the money you pay in taxes do you think is spent on government programs that you personally favor and support?

April 4-5, 2006 -
Almost all 7%
Some 36
Not much 34
None 11
(Don’t know) 12


After federal taxes are collected from the American public, do you think Congress thinks of the money more as taxpayer money to spend carefully or as their money to spend as they wish?

April 4-5, 2006 -
TaxPayer's 10%
Their's 80
(Both) 3
(Neither) 1
(Don’t Know) 6


(Polling was conducted by telephone April 4-5, 2006, in the evenings. The total sample is 900 registered voters nationwide with a margin of error of ±3 percentage points. Results are of registered voters.)