Section #1 - Top Legislative Battles Ahead

1.  Do you agree that CAGW should work around-the-clock to immediately provide detailed documentation for cutting the worst government programs, along with supplying the arguments to defend the cuts in order to reverse the massive growth of government and the deficit spending  that are bankrupting our nation?

Yes: 99%

No: 1%       

Undecided: 0%

2. Do you think that CAGW should play a public role in countering the calls by the Big Labor Bosses and far-left organizations that the deficits and debt  should be ignored and there should be dramatically higher taxes and more deficit spending?

Yes: 97%

No: 1%       

Undecided: 2% 

3. Do you think CAGW should coach and help train fiscal conservatives who must explain to the American people how unrestrained big-government spending will bankrupt our country?

Yes: 99%

No: 1%       

Undecided: 0%

4. In previous years, CAGW spent tens of thousands of dollars to research and publicize a comprehensive list of possible cuts in wasteful spending that totaled nearly $2 trillion over five years.  Dozens of these recommendations were used by Congress to save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars and keep both the deficit and taxes lower than they might otherwise have been.  Do you think CAGW should research and publicize a new list of waste cuts during the first days of the new Congress?

Yes: 98%

No: 1%       

Undecided: 1%

5. For more than a decade, CAGW has led and won the fight against the pet, special interest earmarks that hollow out our nation’s defenses by siphoning off vital Defense Budget dollars.  Unless immediate action is taken, a disproportionate share of the spending reductions needed to reduce the deficit will come out of national security funding.  Do you believe that CAGW should wage a campaign to prevent the further hollowing out of our nation’s defenses by insisting that all spending programs and entitlements should be included in any deficit reduction plan?

Yes: 95%

No: 1%       

Undecided: 4%

Section #2 - Top Issues in 2012

1. Which do you think are the three biggest issues facing America?

1. The Cost, Size and Power of the Federal Government 
2. The Skyrocketing Deficit
3. Poor Economic Growth

2. Do you believe that there is enough waste in the federal budget that each department and agency could cut its spending by 10 percent without imperiling vital programs? 

Yes: 94%

No: 3%       

Undecided: 3%

3.  During hard economic times, do you believe, as many big-government advocates do, that it is more important to punish the highest earners among us or should the taxes of all Americans be permanently reduced in an effort to spur the stalled economy?

Tax the Rich:  3%

Lower All Taxes: 95%

Undecided: 2% 

4. Of the many provisions of ObamaCare, which of the following four do you think the fiscal conservatives in Congress should battle to weaken or eliminate?

(In order by rank)

1. The individual mandate that requires every American to purchase government-approved insurance.
2. Tough new regulations and requirements on insurance companies that many believe will lead to the end of all private health insurance and pave the way for complete government control of healthcare.
3. The $716 billion cut in Medicare to help finance ObamaCare.
4. The government cost controls that many believe will lead to the rationing of healthcare in America based on age and pre-existing medical conditions that affect longevity.
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5. President Obama has said that Americans cannot take care of themselves through self-reliance so he has dramatically increased the size, cost and regulatory powers of the federal government.  Do you believe that the Obama Administration’s massive increase in federal regulations is a leading reason for our prolonged economic slowdown?

Yes: 96%

No: 2%       

Undecided: 2%

6. Do you believe that it weakens America and jeopardizes our independence that foreign powers such as the People’s Republic of China are purchasing and holding large amounts of our national debt?

Yes: 97%

No: 1%       

Undecided: 2%

7. Would you support an immediate freeze on all government spending as a first step toward stopping the soaring growth in the cost and size of government?

Yes: 97%

No: 2%       

Undecided:1%

8. Do you think that CAGW should wage an all-out battle to eliminate funding for the 16,000 new IRS agents that are going to be hired to enforce just the individual mandate under ObamaCare?

Yes: 85%

No: 5%       

Undecided: 10%

9. President Obama has either enacted or expressed support for the following tax policies.  Mark below which of these you support:

1%  tax increase on dividends

1%  tax increase on capital gains

0%  increase in the death tax

2%  tax increase on upper-income Americans

1%  tax cut for those who don’t pay taxes

95%  none of the above