A Gallup poll conducted on 5-8 March 2015 found that 18% of Americans see government as this country's number-one problem.  That problem beat out the economy (11%), unemployment (10%), and health care (7%). March was the fourth month in a row, and the eighth time in the past year, that government was named as the primary problem. The latest poll results are based on interviews conducted March 5-8, 2015.  A random sample of 1,025 adults were asked, "What do you think is the most important problem facing the country today?"  The margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. And here is a big problem with government: The Gallup poll result is consistent with research conducted by Ilyana Kuziemko, Michael I. Norton, Emmanuel Saez, and Stefanie Stantcheva, published in 2013 by the National Bureau of Economic Research.  Five thousand Americans polled by this research didn't trust the government to do...(Read Full Post)