March 19-22, 2010: Bloomberg Poll—Nationwide poll includes two questions on possible changes to Social Security in order to decrease the deficit.
“I’m goingto mention some general approaches that could be considered to help decreasethe deficit–some of which may mean a sacrifice for you and your household. Foreach, please tell me if you think this approach should be strongly considered,just considered, or taken off the table….Remove the cap on the SocialSecurity tax so that wage-earners who make more than $107,000 a year continueto pay into Social Security”
36% Stronglyconsidered
42% Considered
18% Taken off thetable
4% Not sure
Subpopulation/Note: .
Survey by Bloomberg. Methodology: Conducted by Selzer &Co., March 19 – March 22, 2010 and based on 1,002 telephone interviews. Sample:national adult. Interviews were conducted on landline telephones and cellphones. [USSELZER.032410.R11A]
FormalCitation
BloombergPoll, Mar, 2010. Retrieved Nov-9-2010 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Centerfor Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut.http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html
“(I’m going to mention some generalapproaches that could be considered to help decrease the deficit–some of whichmay mean a sacrifice for you and your household. For each, please tell me ifyou think this approach should be strongly considered, just considered, ortaken off the table.)…Reduce annual cost of living increases for SocialSecurity participants”
17% Stronglyconsidered
35% Considered
47% Taken off thetable
1% Not sure
Subpopulation/Note: .
Survey by Bloomberg. Methodology: Conducted by Selzer &Co., March 19 – March 22, 2010 and based on 1,002 telephone interviews. Sample:national adult. Interviews were conducted on landline telephones and cellphones. [USSELZER.032410.R11H]
FormalCitation
BloombergPoll, Mar, 2010. Retrieved Nov-9-2010 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Centerfor Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut.http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html