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SHOCKER: CNN poll: Majority of Americans ? agree with founders. ?This shouldn?t be a surprise;?

By Glenn Reynolds

SHOCKER: CNN poll: Majority of Americans ? agree with founders. “This shouldn?t be a surprise; it should be basic civics. . . . A massive federal government and the crushing debt it produces is exactly what the founders wanted to avoid. Thankfully, 56% of Americans have awoken to the danger of Leviathan. It?s hard to figure out what it will take to get the other 44% to comprehend it, short of total collapse.”

UPDATE: Reader Joe Johnson writes:

Prof. Reynolds, please recall that some 40% or so of American households now pay zero federal/state taxes, so they really haven’t much incentive to agree with the founders about the debt crisis and the coming tax increases to pay interest on the debt.

I think you mean income tax. Well, about 33% disagreed with the founders at the time of the Revolution, so we haven’t fallen all that far.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 26, 2010 (boomark / email).