Pew: ICE less popular than IRS

[Landslide Lyndon]

That must come as a surprise to many of our blue, salt-of-the-earth avatars.

[Kingpoleon]

Why on earth is the IRS above the Justice and Education Departments?

[Crumpets]

I pity the life of the 10% of people who say they have an unfavorable view of NASA.

[Kingpoleon]

I pity the life of the 10% of people who say they have an unfavorable view of NASA.

I suppose it could be considered a legitimate issue that we fund space exploration through the same organization we fund planetary science, earth science, and other non-space related research, but something tells me its opponents would oppose a general Science Agency/Department of Science.

[dead0man]

more than twice as popular as Congress!

[Meclazine for Israel]

Neither institution are running a popularity contest.

The objectives of those institutions do not include any relation to mildly tepid threads on a political forum.

[Stranger in a strange land]

I pity the life of the 10% of people who say they have an unfavorable view of NASA.

I suppose it could be considered a legitimate issue that we fund space exploration through the same organization we fund planetary science, earth science, and other non-space related research, but something tells me its opponents would oppose a general Science Agency/Department of Science.

People with a negative opinion of NASA are probably conspiracy wingnuts who think the Moon Landing was fake but that there are child sex slaves on Mars.

[McNukes™ #NYCMMWasAHero]

Why on earth is the IRS above the Justice and Education Departments?

If 55% of the population isn't paying taxes, I can see how they could support the IRS but not ICE.

On the other hand, I have a feeling that hardcore conservatives who want to abolish the Department of Education somehow aren't going to support the IRS even if they aren't paying taxes.

[Kingpoleon]

Why on earth is the IRS above the Justice and Education Departments?

If 55% of the population isn't paying taxes, I can see how they could support the IRS but not ICE.

On the other hand, I have a feeling that hardcore conservatives who want to abolish the Department of Education somehow aren't going to support the IRS even if they aren't paying taxes.

It’s only 55% not paying if Amazon (among others) count as people.

[OSR stands with Israel]

This poll doesnt mean 55% want to abolish ICE though lol, I can bet like at least a quarter of people(probably more) who have an unfavorable view of ICE would oppose abolishing it , but would rather just make some reforms to the agency.

[Gass3268]

This poll doesnt mean 55% want to abolish ICE though lol, I can bet like at least a quarter of people(probably more) who have an unfavorable view of ICE would oppose abolishing it , but would rather just make some reforms to the agency.

Like mass firings and complete overhaul of leadership.

[lfromnj]

Disturbing the FBI and CIA are so popular despite atleast half the conspiracies from the 20th century turning out to be true.
This isn't even to say they are wrong with regards to Trump but no one should be that trustworthy of these 2 organizations.

[This user has not been convicted of 34 felonies]

Why on earth is the IRS above the Justice and Education Departments?

It shouldn't be, but I imagine the dislike of the Justice Department stems from political reasons and the Education Department is for student loan reasons.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

How the hell is the CIA so high?

[Person Man]

How the hell is the CIA so high?

Because secret agents can go anywhere and do anything!😎

They really are a mixed bag.

[Stranger in a strange land]

But back to the topic of the thread, I'm actually super pleasantly surprised that ICE has net negative approval simply because it's a law enforcement agency and the public usually has pretty high approval of these.

[Grassroots]

The fact that IRS is so high disregards this poll.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Why on earth is the IRS above the Justice and Education Departments?

Barr and DeVos.

[Stranger in a strange land]

The fact that IRS is so high disregards this poll.

The IRS only collects taxes and distributes refunds. It doesn't set tax rates (that's done by congress). Audits are pretty rare because the IRS doesn't have the resources, and most people e-file their taxes using software like Turbotax, so they have little interaction with the agency itself.