It’s not the deficit, it’s the spending. Part II

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Rasmussen reported a second deficit-related poll yesterday:

Eighty-three percent (83%) of Americans say the size of the federal budget deficit is due more to the unwillingness of politicians to cut government spending than to the reluctance of taxpayers to pay more in taxes..[J]ust nine percent (9%) of adults put more blame on the unwillingness of taxpayers to pay more in taxes.

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