The following is from Gallup News.
Nearly half of Americans say Congress should reduce the federal deficit mostly or only through spending cuts. That’s according to Gallup’s latest poll conducted Sept. 2–16, just before the Oct. 1 government shutdown.
Specifically, 27% say the deficit should be reduced “mostly” by cutting spending, while 22% say it should be done “only” with spending cuts. Just 17% favor relying mostly or only on tax increases. Another 27% prefer an equal mix of spending cuts and tax hikes.
Gallup last asked this question in November 2012 during the “fiscal cliff” standoff. At that time, more Americans also leaned toward spending cuts, though a plurality supported a mixed approach. Similar results were recorded April and July 2011 during negotiations over the debt limit.
The new data highlights a sharp political divide. A combined 80% of Republicans want the deficit reduced through spending cuts—38% say “only” cuts, and 42% say “mostly” cuts. In contrast, 41% of Democrats say they support a balanced approach, combining tax hikes and spending cuts.
Among Democrats, 28% favor relying mostly or only on tax increases, while just 21% say the deficit should be cut mostly or only through spending cuts. Independents’ views closely match the national average, as seen in prior years.
Gallup also asked about support for seven specific proposals to reduce federal debt. Just two received majority approval across the board: increasing income taxes on upper-income Americans (63%) and overhauling the tax code to raise more revenue (54%).
Both ideas receive majority support from Democrats and independents but fall short among Republicans.
Instead, Republicans overwhelmingly favor other actions. Eighty-nine percent say they back imposing tariffs on imported goods. Seventy-five percent say they support significant changes to Medicaid and food assistance programs. Seventy-two percent say they want cuts to programs other than defense, Social Security, and Medicare.
In addition, 56% of Republicans say they favor major changes to Social Security and Medicare. These measures are supported by less than half of independents and just 26% or fewer of Democrats.
The only debt-reduction measure supported by a majority of Democrats is cutting defense spending, favored by 63%.
The poll underscores a central challenge in fiscal negotiations: while many Americans agree on the need to cut the deficit, partisan divisions persist on how to achieve it. That divide is reflected not only in Congress but in the broader public.
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Why not ask people if their taxes should go up to reduce the deficit you would see a lot more people vote for spending cuts alone. To many people think that if taxes go up it is only the wealthy, but there is a limit to that as you simple do not have the numbers and history shows what happens to wealth if you increase taxes too much. There are other ways to tax, beside income tax. Just look at federal gas taxes, phone, utilities, and the list goes on and on. How to you think they pay for all those free phones? The problem with taxes is Congress ties to balance limiting taxes on the middle class and lower middle class so as to retain their votes, but that is where a small amount of tax increases starts to add up just because of the number of people. Just look at the percentages of individual income taxes collected by income levels.
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When was the last time the federal government increased taxes and used it to reduce the debt? Most US citizens were not alive back in 1957 when the National Debt was reduced by $2.3B under president Eisenhower. Even the Newt Gingrich ‘Contract with America’ did not reduce the National Debt during the 4 consecutive years of budget surplus under Bill Clinton. While the public debt decreased during the Clinton second term by $435B, intragovernment debt rose by more than $800B giving us an increase in the National Debt of $400B as the federal spending ‘borrowed’ from supluses in Social Security and Medicare receipts versus payments. Government accounting it so twisted one has to look as all the figures to get the facts. If taxes are increased, spending will increase until the voters hold the government’s feet to the fire on spending.