Not the name of a rap singer, but how much of every tax dollar Americans think goes wasted:
Our $2 Trillion Bridge to Nowhere
Americans believe Washington squanders half of every tax dollar.
“Of every tax dollar that goes to Washington, D.C., how many cents of each dollar would you say is wasted?” Gallup found that the mean response was 50 cents. With Uncle Sam spending just shy of $4 trillion this year, that means the public believes that $2 trillion is wasted.
And the people don’t like it:
Now there’s a powerful voter backlash against the Bush-Obama agenda of bailouts, stimulus plans and trillion dollar-plus deficits. The rage began with the bank bailouts last fall. It grew with the $787 billion stimulus bill, which was little more than a refill of the budgets of every left-wing program Democrats have wanted to throw money at for 40 years. The nearly $100 billion bailout of General Motors and Chrysler—some $300,000 for every auto job saved—was a bridge too far for debt-weary voters. When Mr. Obama then released his 10-year budget plan—which even he admitted would double the national debt with $9 trillion of new borrowing over the next decade—he was lighting a match in a munitions factory.
But, “We have had too little government“?
(h/t Pundette)
I think the Gallup percentage discovery is low (and intentionally un-informed by the Media). In California for example and according to a mental health professional working in the system, out of a Mental Health budget of $203,000,000 (Two Hundred And Three Million$), only $20,000,000 (Twenty Million) goes to actual patient care.
In other words, 89% of the budget – $160,000,000/year – is going to fill the public trough.
That is obscene, DC!
That’s California, where there’s only 5.45 private sector employees for each Gub’mint employee.