80% Want Government To Sell Stake In GM, Chrysler Right Now
Eighty percent (80%) of U.S. voters want the government to sell its stake in General Motors and Chrysler as soon as possible.
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June 16, 2009
June 11, 2009
53% Say More Government Spending Hurts the Economy
Most voters (53%) believe increases in government spending hurt the economy, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
June 11, 2009
51% Say Cut Everybody’s Taxes To Stimulate the Economy
Fifty-one percent (51%) of Americans favor an across-the-board tax cut for all Americans to stimulate the U.S. economy, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
June 11, 2009
Most Reject Government Control of Executive Compensation If Bailout Is Repaid
If a company repays its bailout funds, 61% of Americans say the government should not regulate the company’s executive pay and bonuses. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 31% disagree.
June 10, 2009
Most Americans Aren’t Counting On A Payback From GM
Just 33% of Americans think it is even somewhat likely that the federal government will ever get back the $50 billion in bailout funds it has advanced to General Motors to keep the company in business. Only 11% say it’s very likely.
June 10, 2009
45% Say Cancel Rest of Stimulus Spending
Forty-five percent (45%) of Americans say the rest of the new government spending authorized in the $787-billion economic stimulus plan should now be canceled. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 36% disagree and 20% are not sure.
June 9, 2009
41% Say Quality of GM Cars Will Suffer Under Government Management
Forty-one percent (41%) of Americans expect the quality of General Motors cars to get worse now that the federal government is the majority owner of the bankrupt automaker.
June 8, 2009
Americans Still Like Wal-Mart, Say It’s Good for the Community
Wal-Mart’s still number one, and Costco has a way to go to catch up.
June 8, 2009
Just 42% of GM Owners Likely to Buy GM Again
Only 42% of those who currently own a General Motors car are even somewhat likely to buy a GM product for their next car. That figure includes just 30% who are Very Likely to do so.
June 5, 2009
CEOs Still Bring Up The Rear in Public’s Opinion
With two of the nation’s Big Three automakers in bankruptcy and the economy still a mess, Americans continue to view corporate chief executive officers as the lowest of the low.
June 4, 2009
26% Applaud GM Bailout But 17% Favor Boycott
Twenty-six percent (26%) of American adults believe it was a good idea for the federal government to take ownership of General Motors as the auto giant was on the verge of collapse. Nearly as many--17%--say that Americans should protest the bailout by boycotting GM and refusing to buy its cars. Most Americans are somewhere in between.
June 4, 2009
Rasmussen Employment Index Makes Modest Gain in May
The Rasmussen Employment Index, a monthly measure of U.S. worker confidence in the employment market, rose for the third straight month in May.
June 1, 2009
Americans Have Voted ‘No' on GM Bailout From Day One
General Motors for decades has been the symbol of U.S. industrial might. “What’s good for General Motors is good for the country” is a quotation that has lingered in the popular imagination since it was first said over 50 years ago. And the truth is, at its high point in 1962, GM had 51 percent of the car and truck market to itself.
June 1, 2009
31% Say Stimulus Package Helped, 27% Say It Hurt Economy
Thirty-one percent (31%) of U.S. voters believe the economic stimulus package passed earlier this year has helped the economy. That's down from 34% who thought it would help in late February and 38% who held that view when it first passed earlier in the month.
May 31, 2009
Just 21% Favor GM Bailout Plan, 67% Oppose
Only 21% of voters nationwide support a plan for the government to bail out General Motors as part of a structured bankruptcy plan to keep the troubled auto giant in business.
May 30, 2009
42% Expect Housing Market Will Take More Than Three Years To Recover
Forty-two percent (42%) of Americans now say it will take more than three years for housing prices to recover. That’s up slightly from 40% a month ago.
May 29, 2009
18% Favor National Sales Tax, 68% Oppose
To raise additional money for the government, just 18% of Americans nationwide favor a national sales tax. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 68% oppose such a tax.
May 29, 2009
Short-Term, Long-Term Confidence in Economy Remains Unchanged
President Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner both said this week that they see optimistic signs in the U.S. economy, but the short-term and long-term perspectives of most Americans remain unchanged over the past month.
May 28, 2009
Ford’s The Favorite Among Big Three, But GM, Chrysler Rebound
With Chrysler in a government-supervised bankruptcy and General Motors expected to follow suit any day now, Ford is stretching its lead as the most highly regarded of the Big Three automakers.
May 27, 2009
83% Still See Need for Postal Service in 10 Years, Even If They Use It Much Less
Eighty-three percent (83%) of Americans say it’s likely there will still be a need for the U.S. Postal Service in 10 years, even as increasing numbers pay their bills and send personal letters via the Internet. Fifty-one percent (51%) say it is Very Likely there will be such a need.
