Michigan voters against raising Social Security age

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By TODD SPANGLER
FREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF

Michigan’s got some ideas about how to fix the nation’s fiscal solvency, but when it comes to raising the age for getting Social Security or Medicare, forget about it.

Nearly three-quarters of those likely to vote in the November election who were surveyed last weekend in a Free Press/WXYZ-TV poll oppose raising the age for full Social Security benefits to 70, and nearly as many — 69% — oppose raising the age to receive Medicare benefits from age 65 to 67. Both ideas have been offered to keep the programs solvent.

But Michigan voters like some other solutions for the government’s fiscal crisis:

Two out of every three want to end tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas.

More than half would lift the cap on the payroll tax for Social Security, meaning people making more than $107,000 a year would pay more.

By a 49%-42% margin, the likely voters want tax cuts approved while George W. Bush was president to expire for people who earn more than $250,000 a year.

http://www.freep.com/article/20100916/NEWS06/100916065/1319/Poll-shows-Michigan-voters-against-raising-Social-Security-age

But are the Pols listening?

[Buns_of_Fire]

1. All reasonable suggestions...

Which, naturally, means there's not a chance in hell that Washington will listen to them.

[customerserviceguy]

2. What's amazing to me about your post

is that the margin's so slim for a state that's been one of the hardest hit by this recession/depression.

[MichiganVote]

3. Any party that messes with SS in Michigan is a dead duck in the national election.