"Voters favor cuts to balance the budget — yet they object to most of the cuts that could be made, a Los Angeles Times/USC Poll shows."
"Only one in four voters favored trimming elementary and high schools, which make up almost 42% of state general fund spending. Just over one-third approved of cuts to state colleges and universities, or, separately, to state-financed health care for children or the poor, the poll found. The only state-financed enterprise that voters favored chopping was the prison system, which more than 70% of voters wanted to cut either minimally or by a large amount."
How Would You Fix the Budget?
"In a NBC/Wall Street Journal poll out Thursday 59 percent say they are uncomfortable about raising taxes or changing the tax code to reduce the deficit. Some 41 percent said that they are somewhat or very comfortable with the Bowles-Simpson plan. And 57 percent said they are uncomfortable about raising the Social Security retirement age to 69 by 2075."
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"An overwhelming 70 percent of respondents said they are uncomfortable with cuts in entitlement programs, such as Social Security and Medicare and in defense programs. The poll also found that 66 percent of voters said cutting spending was a "major" reason for supporting certain candidates in the midterms."
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