Poll:68% Say Bailout Money Is Going To Those Who Caused The Economic Crisis
With public outrage building over bonuses paid to executives of the bailed-out American International Group (AIG), 68% of Americans now believe most of the taxpayer money given out as bailouts is going to the very people who created the country’s current economic crisis.
Seventy percent (70%) of investors hold that view along with 67% of non-investors.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that, overall, only 18% disagree and 14% are undecided.
Separate survey data recently found that 64% of Americans believe that big business and big government typically work together against the interests of consumers and voters. Only 15% disagree.
Americans have consistently been wary of the large taxpayer-backed bailouts and 65% now say Wall Street has benefited more from the bailouts than the average U.S. taxpayer. Only 18% believe the taxpayer has benefited more.
These numbers are roughly comparable to the findings in a survey in October just after Wall Street’s problems burst into public view and Congress was close to passage of its first bailout plan for the financial industry despite strong public opposition.
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