State Government Careful or Careless with Tax Dollars (June 2023)
category | Total |
---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 33% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 48% |
Don't know | 20% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 26% | 26% | 42% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 54% | 57% | 42% |
Don't know | 20% | 17% | 16% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 29% | 29% | 22% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 55% | 48% | 57% |
Don't know | 15% | 23% | 21% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 34% | 37% | 47% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 53% | 41% | 38% |
Don't know | 13% | 22% | 15% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 25% | 27% | 42% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 57% | 45% | 43% |
Don't know | 18% | 27% | 15% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 28% | 27% | 18% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 55% | 49% | 68% |
Don't know | 17% | 24% | 13% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 38% | 42% | 45% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 47% | 38% | 44% |
Don't know | 15% | 20% | 11% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 36% | 32% | 27% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 49% | 42% | 46% |
Don't know | 16% | 25% | 27% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 43% | 24% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 42% | 52% |
Don't know | 15% | 24% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 38% | 29% | 33% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 43% | 52% | 44% |
Don't know | 19% | 18% | 23% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 41% | 34% | 27% | 35% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 45% | 42% | 54% | 46% |
Don't know | 14% | 25% | 19% | 19% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 40% | 31% | 34% | 29% | 34% | 34% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 33% | 44% | 47% | 50% | 50% | 52% |
Don't know | 27% | 24% | 19% | 20% | 16% | 14% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 38% | 34% | 27% | 21% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 43% | 46% | 53% | 58% |
Don't know | 19% | 20% | 19% | 21% |
Category | The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is the word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is a book written by men and is not the word of God. | Don't know. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mostly careful with people's tax dollars | 40% | 35% | 20% | 25% |
Mostly careless with people's tax dollars | 40% | 47% | 63% | 42% |
Don't know | 20% | 18% | 17% | 33% |