This way nearly all U. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U. Here are the questions used for this report, along with responses, and its methodology. Most of the increase has come among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents. Among the one-third of Republicans who say the government does have this responsibility, opinion is divided over whether or not it should be provided through a single government program or a mix of private and government programs.
While divisions remain within the Democratic Party about the best way to provide health insurance, increasing shares across most demographic and ideological groups support a single national government program.
White Democrats remain more likely than those of other races and ethnicities to support a single national program, but White, Black and Hispanic Democrats have each increased their support for a single national program by about 10 percentage points since last year. A similar pattern emerges with age: Younger Democrats are still more supportive than older Democrats, but Democrats of all ages have increased their support over the past year.
Note: Here are the questions used for this report, along with responses, and its methodology. Same for interstate highways by Are federal tax credits to business a form of socialism for the rich? Dems were likely to agree with that, by 22 percent, compared to 14 percent of Republicans. How about extending free K public education to include college?
No surprise: By 69 to 48 percent, Republicans were more likely to view that as a step into S-word hell. My argument, as in the previous piece, is that these measurements show that the S-word is fairly meaningless except for political purposes, and Trump and Emmer hope to ride that meaninglessness to a big win in It works, but mostly with their base. See our full republication guidelines for more information.
What about libertarians? Unfortunately, the conservative movement has corrupted much of the libertarian movement. The libertarian movement began as a radical movement for liberty, one that favored genuine liberty, one that called for the repeal of Social Security and every other socialist program.
Once disgruntled conservatives began flooding into the libertarian movement, however, they brought their support of socialism with them. The effect was to corrupt the libertarian movement by inducing many libertarians to abandon their call for Social Security repeal and to adopt a position of Social Security reform. Thus today, unfortunately, in much of the libertarian movement it is impossible to distinguish the libertarian position on Social Security from the conservative position. For many libertarians, the libertarian-position on Social Security, as well as for other welfare-state programs, is reform, reform, reform, but never repeal, abolish, or terminate.
In the process, this has contributed to making libertarianism nothing more than a libertarian-conservative mush and making the libertarian movement into simply a revolving door for disgruntled conservatives. That reduced their poverty rate to less than one in seven, and meant that government benefits lifted fully 44 percent of otherwise poor, non-college-educated whites above the poverty line.
African Americans, Hispanics, and members of other races without advanced degrees confronted even higher poverty rates than working-class whites. Although the CBPP analysts have not fully isolated the cause of that disparity, they say one factor may be the important role of Social Security in lifting people from poverty.
African Americans gained more from federal programs than other non-whites did. The study found that 43 percent of non-college-educated African Americans—some 6.
Those programs lifted 2. That represented a 43 percent reduction in the number of poor, working-class African Americans, a figure comparable to the percentage if not absolute gains among whites.
Among Hispanics, the study found, 8.
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