5% said, "increase taxes."
62% said, "reduce government spending."
OK, said The Economist. "Here is a list of things the federal government spends money on. Which things should the government spend less on?"
As you can see in the chart above, over two-thirds of Americans don't want to reduce spending on any single category, except foreign aid. But foreign aid represents less than 1% of America's total spending.
via Boing Boing
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That 70%+ want to cut Foreign Aid is quite interesting, and reveals that the American public (and in my experience, the Canadian public as well) have no clue what 'Foreign Aid' is or where the money goes.
No nation, not even the Russians or the Chinese, hand out checks to foreign governments. What they do is buy products from their domestic manufacturers and agricultural producers, hire Americans to fill all the positions, and then 'give' that aid to a foreign country.
So, if America 'gives" a billion dollars of food aid to Haiti, they buy a billion dollars worth of food from American farmers. Cut Foreign Aid, and those farmers have to sell to the open market and usually at lower prices. Same for all Foreign Aid; virtually 100% of the money is spent in the donor country on products made by domestic producers and on salaries paid to it's own citizens.
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