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Polling Memo: Americans' Views on Social Security [1]
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Date: 2022-08-03
August 2015
A majority of voters in New Hampshire and Iowa would vote against a candidate who proposed cutting or reducing Social Security benefits.
63 percent of Iowa voters say they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who proposed cutting or reducing Social Security benefits.
71 percent of voters from New Hampshire would be less likely to vote for a candidate who proposed cutting or reducing Social Security benefits.
A strong majority of New Hampshire and Iowa voters would support a candidate whose campaign platform protected Social Security benefits.
80 percent of Iowa and New Hampshire voters say they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who proposed protecting our Social Security benefits.
Over three-quarters of voters in Iowa and New Hampshire believe that the payroll tax dedicated to Social Security should be equally applied to everyone regardless of income.
77 percent of voters in New Hampshire and 76 percent of voters in Iowa believe that Congress should make millionaires and billionaires pay the same rate on all of their income, by eliminating the maximum taxable wage base and applying it to earned and invested income.
Read full poll.
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https://socialsecurityworks.org/2022/08/03/social-security-polling/
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