As President Obama and Congress brace to battle over how to reduce chronic annual budget deficits, Americans overwhelmingly say that in general they prefer cutting government spending to paying higher taxes, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. ...Nearly two-thirds of Americans choose higher payroll taxes for Medicare and Social Security over reduced benefits in either program. And asked to choose among cuts to Medicare, Social Security or the nation’s third-largest spending program — the military — a majority by a large margin said cut the Pentagon.
While Americans are near-unanimous in calling deficits a problem — a “very serious” problem, say 7 out of 10 — a majority believes it should not be necessary for them to pay higher taxes to bridge the shortfall between what the government spends and what it takes in.
Jan 21, 2011
Little Support For Benefit Cuts
From the New York Times:
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It's the "have my cake and eat it too" syndrome. Very common. Let's see if the Tea Partiers can figure out how to eat and still have cake.
And raise the debt ceiling and continue living off the Chinese credit card, that our great grandchildren will be left with as a burden. People are in such denial about what they use in services and the actual costs of said services.
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