A Rasmussen Poll released Friday shows that a majority of likely voters prefer a smaller government with fewer services and lower taxes. Members of a representative sample of 1,000 U.S. likely voters were asked to weigh in on whether they favor a “more active government with more services and higher taxes or a smaller government with fewer services and lower taxes.” Fifty-five percent said they’d rather have smaller government, fewer services, and lower taxes compared to 37 percent who favored bigger government with more services, at the cost of a higher tax bill. There were sharp partisan differences among respondents, with 78 percent of Republicans opposed to bigger government and more taxes, while 57 percent of Democrats held the opposite view. At the same time, the survey showed that 68 percent of respondents said they do not believe the government spends the money it collects from taxpayers wisely or carefully. …