Bipartisan Poll Shows All Voters Strongly Oppose Social Security and Medicare Cuts [View All]

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Some Highlights from the Poll:

A recent National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare poll shows that voters across all party lines share unprecedented unity in their views on deficit reduction. By a margin of 50%, Americans across all ages do not support cutting Social Security and Medicare to reduce the deficit.
Key findings of the bi-partisan poll include:

• Voters oppose cuts to Social Security and Medicare in any Super committee proposal by a 50-point margin.

• 82% of Democrats, 73% of Independents and 58% Republicans, a majority, oppose cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

• 72% of self-described fiscally conservative voters oppose cuts to Social Security benefits.

• 68% of self-described fiscally conservative voters oppose cuts to Medicare benefits.

• 54% of all voters, including 42% of Republicans, would punish their Member of Congress for voting for cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

• 40% of all voters, including 48% of Independent voters, would punish President Obama for supporting cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

• The majority of voters (71%) favor gradually raising the cap on wages.

• Younger voters are more likely to oppose raising the retirement age than seniors are.

• The majority of all voters favor raising taxes on the wealthy over making cuts to Social Security and Medicare, including:
o 94% of Democrats
o 82% of Independents
o 64% of Republicans

Link to the PDF of the Poll: http://www.ncpssm.org/pdf/poll.pdf

and http://www.ncpssm.org/pdf/poll_executive_summary.pdf