How Can We Pay the Bills?

NOW THAT YOU’VE HAD a chance to participate in a forum on this issue, we’d like to know what you’re thinking. Anonymous responses will be included in summary reports on the forums and in research to help us better understand how people are thinking about current issues.

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* 1. Do you favor or oppose each of these actions?

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Sharply cut military spending EVEN IF it results in base closures that hurt communities and allows hostile nations to match our power and weaponry.
Raise the income cap so people pay Social Security taxes on more of what they earn EVEN IF higher-income people end up paying far more into the system than they will receive in benefits.
Amend the Constitution to force Congress and the President to balance the budget EVEN IF this triggers deep cuts in programs and shocks the economy.
Have the federal government fund a massive infrastructure program EVEN IF it means adding significantly more to the national debt.

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* 2. Which statement comes closer to your view? If you’re not
sure, please let us know.

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* 3. Which statement comes closer to your view? If you’re not
sure, please let us know.

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* 4. Which statement comes closer to your view? If you’re not
sure, please let us know.

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* 5. Which statement comes closer to your view? If you’re not
sure, please let us know.

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* 6. How much disagreement was there about this issue in your forum?

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* 7. Did you talk about aspects of the issue you hadn’t considered before?

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* 8. Were there ideas or proposals that you tended to favor coming into the forum that you now have second thoughts about?

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* 9. What could citizens, working together, do in their own communities to address this problem?

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* 10. Not including this forum, how many National Issues Forums have you attended?

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* 11. Gender:

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* 12. Age:

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* 13. Race/Ethnicity:

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* 14. Where do you live?

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* 15. What is your zip code?

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* 16. What state do you live in?

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* 18. What issue would you like to see covered in a future forum?

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