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To: Alighieri who wrote (608480)	4/23/2011 5:04:21 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1577415

Most people oppose cutting Medicare. But that's not really an issue that's in the current political debate. The issue is restraining the growth of Medicare, not actually cutting it. As I posted elsewhere - f you simply phrase the question, "do you want to cut Medicare", I'm not surprised (unhappy about, but not surprised) that its hard to find support for the idea. That however is a misleading question. Almost no one is proposing to cut Medicare, the question is should we reign in future spending growth. I'd like to see a question like "Medicare payments are expected to grow by x% to $Y billion over the next Z years, do you support the idea of reining in that spending growth. Then the percentage in people in general who say "yes" will go up, and I suspect you might get a majority of tea-partiers (not sure though, as they are on the average, older than other Americans and generally older people are more opposed to entitlement reform). Or if you could ask like - "Should taxes to pay for entitlements be allowed to go over x% of the GDP and y % of the average paycheck?"

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