Poll: Voters Would Rather Tax The Wealthy Than Cut Social Security

[babsbunny]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/poll-voters-would-rather-tax-the-wealthy-than-cut-social-security.php

Evan McMorris-Santoro | November 10, 2010, 9:51AM

Voters last week sent Washington a strong message about fixing the federal budget, according to exclusive numbers from a new poll obtained by TPM: Raise taxes on the wealthy and cut the military budget before you touch the nation's largest entitlement program, Social Security.

The survey of voters who cast ballots last Tuesday -- conducted by Democratic pollster PPP and commissioned by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee -- found that when respondents were given the choice between cutting the defense budget, raising taxes on the wealthy and cutting Social Security to reduce the deficit, just 12% said they'd like to see the entitlement program cut. Forty-three percent said they'd prefer to see taxes on the wealthy go up, and 22% said cutting the huge defense budget was the best way to go.

[ibegurpard]

1. voters polled overwhelmingly for a public option as well

we saw how that ended...

[NC_Nurse]

2. Voters? Are we sure all these folks voted? If they did, they sure screwed up.

[myrna minx]

3. This means they will do the exact opposite.

:crazy:

[Scuba]

4. Who cares what the voters want? We don't really work "for the people" unless you mean the wealthy.

[lumberjack_jeff]

5. The irony is that cutting social security doesn't cut the deficit.

It simply precludes the need for repayment of that "borrowed" money; it frees bankers and the military industrial complex from ever having to repay their debt to us.

[Autumn]

6. Yeah, but it really doesn't matter what we want.

Does it? Take the Public Option for example. Didn't matter there did it?

[applegrove]

7. Oh this is wonderful. Thank god for polls.

[Overseas]

8. K&R ! Glad to hear it. //nt

[subterranean]

9. So let me get this straight...

Voters want to raise taxes on the wealthy and cut the military budget rather than Social Security, so they elected the party that insists on keeping tax cuts for the wealthy and wants to raise military spending and eliminate Social Security.

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. :eyes:

[donco]

10. Tale the cap off of SS and

that problem will no longer exist.

[Kablooie]

11. Oh surely not! Who wouldn't be willing to give up retirement so the rich can get richer?

Senior citizens who sit on the street begging for a coin or two will be happy knowing that their retirement money was given to the rich gentleman that passes by without so much as a glance down.

[LiberalAndProud]

12. No shit Sherlock.

Sorry, just typed the first thing that came into my head there.