State Government Careful or Careless with Tax Dollars (December 2022)
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| category | Total |
|---|---|
| Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 31% |
| Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 48% |
| Don't know | 21% |
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| Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 19% | 24% | 46% |
| Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 63% | 49% | 36% |
| Don't know | 18% | 28% | 19% |
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| Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 18% | 22% | 18% |
| Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 68% | 55% | 66% |
| Don't know | 15% | 22% | 16% |
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| Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 43% | 37% | 50% |
| Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 44% | 38% | 32% |
| Don't know | 14% | 25% | 18% |
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| Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 18% | 26% | 44% |
| Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 66% | 41% | 39% |
| Don't know | 16% | 33% | 17% |
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| Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 17% | 18% | 18% |
| Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 64% | 65% | 69% |
| Don't know | 19% | 17% | 13% |
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| Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 36% | 44% | 48% |
| Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 44% | 37% | 38% |
| Don't know | 20% | 19% | 14% |
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| Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 38% | 27% | 19% |
| Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 43% | 58% | 51% |
| Don't know | 19% | 15% | 30% |
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| Category | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 35% | 28% |
| Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 49% | 46% |
| Don't know | 16% | 26% |
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| Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 35% | 30% | 28% |
| Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 43% | 51% | 46% |
| Don't know | 22% | 18% | 26% |
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| Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 40% | 32% | 24% | 34% |
| Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 37% | 44% | 54% | 50% |
| Don't know | 23% | 24% | 22% | 17% |
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| Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 16% | 31% | 28% | 30% | 36% | 31% |
| Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 30% | 45% | 49% | 53% | 47% | 52% |
| Don't know | 54% | 24% | 23% | 18% | 17% | 17% |
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| Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 38% | 30% | 23% | 23% |
| Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 41% | 45% | 59% | 58% |
| Don't know | 21% | 25% | 18% | 20% |
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| Category | The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is the word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is a book written by men and is not the word of God. | Don't know. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 43% | 31% | 21% | 17% |
| Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 33% | 47% | 65% | 54% |
| Don't know | 25% | 22% | 14% | 29% |
