80% SAY WALL STREET - NOT TAXPAYERS - BENEFITED MOST FROM BAILOUT

Rasmussen - Eighty percent of Americans now say Wall Street benefited more from the bailout of the financial industry than the average U.S. taxpayer. Only eight percent of adults say the taxpayer benefited more, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Twelve percent are not sure. . .

The federal government still owns Goldman Sachs stock it received as part of the bailout plan, but the company now wants to buy it back. However, 51% of Americans think it’s a better idea to give the stock to U.S. taxpayers. . .

Fifty-seven percent of Americans continue to believe it was a bad idea for the federal government to provide billions of taxpayer dollars in bailout funding for banks and other financial institutions. . .

Seventy-two percent (72%) of Republicans and 65% of adults not affiliated with either major political party say the bailout funding for banks and other financial institutions was a bad idea. But Democrats are evenly divided over the question.