A new Economist/YouGov poll released this week shows that 71 per cent of respondents believe that foreign aid should be cut in order to help balance the federal budget. (Coming in second is the environment, for which 29 per cent of respondents believe funding should be cut.) The poll also notes that spending on foreign aid accounts for less than one per cent of the total federal budget.

Blogger John Sides creates a graph that illustrates his conclusion, “The largest share[s] of the federal budget are typically the ones that the fewest people want to cut,” and vice versa: