7% Think Balanced Budget Very Likely In Next 10 Years
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Voters strongly believe in the importance of a balanced budget, but most don’t expect the federal budget to be balanced in the next 10 years despite competing deficit-cutting plans now before Congress.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 87% of Likely U.S. Voters consider it at least somewhat important to balance the federal budget. This includes 63% who view it as Very Important. Only 10% feel it’s not very or Not At All Important to balance the budget. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on March 16-17, 2013 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.