As progressive, senior, and veterans groups mobilize against the chained CPI — a recalculation of veterans and Social Security programs that would result in a benefits cut — a new poll finds that a majority of Americans opposes this change.
The Washington Post/ABC News poll finds that 51 percent of Americans oppose chained CPI and only 37 percent support it. Parsing out the results further, the Washington Post notes that the major group supporting the change is American who earn six-figures, and that middle and lower-income Americans are most hostile to the policy:
Income is also a dividing line in tolerance for Social Security cuts. Americans with annual incomes of at least $100,000 back the proposal by a 53 to 39 percent margin, but support plummets to 38 percent among those making $50,000 to under $100,000 and to 33 percent among those with incomes below $50,000. Support bottoms out at 25 percent among those with lower incomes who are over the age of 50.
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It’s not just the chained CPI, we are also concerned about the Medicare cuts. It’s time to send a clear message to all politicians to keep their hands off unless they increase funding! We also need to start calling repuglican plans,ie Ryan’s follies, death budgets and death vouchers. The debt ceiling is coming up fast and Rs are already setting the tone with their dollar for dollar repeat of 2011. Can’t D’s tell people what that will cause on top of the sequester cuts? It would cause a depression. Just the threat caused 20+ billion. What now?