Rasmussen Reports dissects conventional wisdom on Reagan maxim

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When President Reagan famously said in his 1981 inaugural address that “government is not the solution, government is the problem,” he probably had no idea those words would become part of the warp and woof of American politics.

But judging by the latest Rasmussen Reports survey of public opinion, Reagan’s maxim is assumed to be true by millions of Americans two decades after he spoke those words.

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