Even after the first stimulus package’s failure to turn around America’s unemployment situation, voters have still had about as much stimulus as they can take, according to a new poll from Rasmussen Reports. Among the 1,000 likely voters surveyed, 62 percent oppose the idea of a second stimulus package. This number is largely unchanged from July, when 60 percent opposed a second stimulus package.
Only 36 percent believe that the current $787 billion stimulus package has helped the economy, whereas 28 percent believe it has had no effect and 28 percent believe it has actually hurt the economy. Interestingly, this represents an all-time-high for public confidence in the stimulus package within Rasmussen’s polling.
That fact, combined with ambitious plans to tax and spend even more on health care, offers a fairly solid explanation for the public anger this summer.
