WA insiders say NO but most everyone wants Social Security Strengthened

http://www.alternet.org/election-2014/almost-every-slice-american-society-wants-strengthen-social-security-except-washington?akid=12210.294211.1NwZry&rd=1&src=newsletter1018418&t=17

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As strengthening Social Security becomes a higher profile issue in a handful of toss-up U.S. Senate races, a new poll of likely 2014 voters in those states and nationwide finds overwhelming support to boost benefits by taxing all Americans equally.    

“We tested in this research the idea of increasing Social Security benefits and paying for that by having wealthy Americans pay the same [income tax] rate for Social Security as everyone else,” said Celinda Lake, who conducted the mid-August poll. “We’ve polled this in the past and we have seen this is consistently and overwhelmingly popular with voters. Seventy-nine percent of the voters in this poll supported that idea; 59 percent strongly. Only 21 percent opposed the idea.”