NUMBER OF AMERICANS WHO SAY GOVERNMENT HAS TOO MUCH POWER HITS RECORD HIGH

The number of Americans who believe that the federal government has grown too large and powerful has reached an all-time high, according to a new Gallup survey.

Six in 10 people surveyed by the polling firm believe that the government has become monolithic, 1 percentage point above September 2010’s previous all-time high.

Roughly 32 percent of respondents said the government has just the right amount of power and only seven percent said the government has too little.

The 7 percent who would like to see the government take on a larger role has actually been fairly consistent in this belief, according to Gallup data dating back to at least 2002.

Roughly half of the respondents since 2005 have said the government has too much power:

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