Local Government Careful or Careless with Tax Dollars (October 2017)
category | Total |
---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars OR | 42% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 41% |
Don't know | 17% |
category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars OR | 43% | 28% | 45% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 40% | 52% | 39% |
Don't know | 17% | 20% | 16% |
category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars OR | 49% | 39% | 41% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 33% | 41% | 44% |
Don't know | 18% | 20% | 15% |
category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars OR | 38% | 54% | 42% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 49% | 28% | 40% |
Don't know | 13% | 17% | 17% |
category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars OR | 44% | 42% | 40% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 40% | 38% | 43% |
Don't know | 16% | 20% | 17% |
category | Leaning liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars OR | 48% | 40% | 45% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 32% | 45% | 41% |
Don't know | 20% | 16% | 14% |
category | Leaning conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars OR | 39% | 38% | 43% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 44% | 44% | 42% |
Don't know | 17% | 18% | 15% |
category | Democrat | Republican | Tea Party |
---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars OR | 47% | 51% | 34% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 39% | 34% | 60% |
Don't know | 14% | 15% | 7% |
category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars OR | 45% | 45% | 34% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 39% | 36% | 46% |
Don't know | 16% | 19% | 19% |
category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars OR | 44% | 39% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 42% | 40% |
Don't know | 13% | 21% |
category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars OR | 41% | 40% | 47% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 40% | 45% | 33% |
Don't know | 19% | 15% | 20% |
category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars OR | 40% | 37% | 42% | 48% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 41% | 37% | 44% | 40% |
Don't know | 19% | 26% | 14% | 12% |
category | No high school | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars OR | 30% | 38% | 33% | 52% | 49% | 45% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 35% | 46% | 48% | 36% | 35% | 37% |
Don't know | 35% | 17% | 19% | 12% | 17% | 18% |
category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars OR | 45% | 40% | 40% | 38% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 39% | 43% | 41% | 42% |
Don't know | 16% | 17% | 19% | 20% |
category | The Bible is the word of God, to be taken literally | The Bible is the word of God, not to be taken literally | The Bible is a book written by men |
---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars OR | 42% | 41% | 44% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 40% | 42% | 41% |
Don't know | 18% | 17% | 15% |