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Views of big business, corporations, profits, capitalism, and socialism.
| Question | Source | Years | Waves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feeling thermometer: Big business Big business – feeling thermometer | ANES | 1964–2024 | 20 |
| Private enterprise as best way to solve economic problems Private enterprise is the best way to solve America's economic problems. | GSS | 1993–2021 | 5 |
| Business profits improve everyone's standard of living F. Allowing business to make good profits is the best way to improve everyone's standard of living. | GSS | 1987–2021 | 3 |
| Hardship from financial difficulty of owned business [A business I owned had financial difficulty] Which of the following did you or your family living with you experience in the past year? | Fed SHED | 2013–2015 | 3 |
| Power of business and industry How about business and industry, do they have too much power or too little power? | GSS | 1985–1996 | 3 |
| Business leaders profit at expense of ordinary people To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements?… Business leaders make their money at the expense of ordinary people. | GSS | 2024 | 1 |
| Support for semiconductor manufacturing grants and tax credit Over the past two years, Congress voted on many issues. Do you support each of the following proposals? [Provide $52 billion in grants for American semiconductor manufacturing and research and a tax credit subsidizing 25% of investments in semiconductor manufacturing.] | CES | 2022 | 1 |
| Support for banning self-preferencing by large online platforms Over the past two years, Congress voted on many issues. Do you support each of the following proposals? [Prohibit large online platforms from giving preference to their own products on the platform at the expense of competing products from another business.] | CES | 2022 | 1 |
| Government should limit executive pay The government should take steps to limit the pay of executives at major companies | GSS | 2021 | 1 |
| Preferred type of company ownership to work for What kind of company would you be most likely to work for if these were your choices? | GSS | 2018 | 1 |
| Influence of employee ownership on buying from a company with each employee having a share of ownership. | GSS | 2018 | 1 |
| Private companies comply with laws and regulations Comply with laws and regulations? Would you say... | GSS | 2016 | 1 |
| Owned business had financial difficulty in past 12 months [A business I owned had financial difficulty] Have you and your family living with you experienced each of the following events in the past 12 months? | Fed SHED | 2016 | 1 |
| Private companies try to avoid paying taxes Try to avoid paying their taxes? (Would you say...) | GSS | 2016 | 1 |
| Fairness of factory not lowering table price Consider the following situation: A small factory produces tables and sells all that it can make at $200 each. because of changes in the price of materials, the cost of making each table has recently decreased by $20. The factory does not lower its price for the tables. Is this acceptable or unfair? | GSS | 1996 | 1 |
| Whether the economic system needs changes On the whole, do you think our economic system is... | GSS | 1996 | 1 |
| Corporations should pay workers more and shareholders less B. Corporations should pay more of their profits to workers and less to shareholders… | GSS | 1991 | 1 |
| Management cares only about profits, not workers A. The way most companies work, the only thing management cares about is profits, regardless of what workers want or need. Do you… | GSS | 1991 | 1 |
| Business profits benefit everyone B. The economy can run only if businessmen make good profits. That benefits everyone in the end. | GSS | 1984 | 1 |
| Fairness of business profit distribution G. Generally speaking, business profits are distributed fairly in the United States. | GSS | 1984 | 1 |