 spending cuts taxing options poll overview  the democrats are calling for additional revenue by taxing anyone who makes over a million dollars a year republicans are calling for spending cuts without raising taxes because they feel that raising taxes would hurt our economic recovery poll types  currently we have two types of polls our traditional poll always appears on our home page in the bottom left portion of the page this poll type allows for fixed responses and making comments the poll results are real time in that the poll statistics are updated as respondents make their choices the second poll type is a webform that allows for a greater degree of input and accuracy multiple choices can be made rather than a single option additionally comments can be made as part of the input when a new poll is initiated a link will be sent to everyone on our enewsletter list and will be posted on facebook poll results will not available in a real time mode but will be calculated when the poll is closed when this type of poll is closed the results will be sent out using the ccrp enewsletter to everyone on the enewsletter recipient list what types of spending cuts and or tax choices should be implemented tax personal income exceeding 100000 tax personal income exceeding 250000 tax personal income exceeding 500000 tax personal income exceeding 1000000 impose a value added tax implement a national sales tax eliminate redundant agency functions commerce department eliminate education department eliminate energy department eliminate foreign aid cuts zero budget based with reevaluation each year homeland security eliminate medicare cuts repeal obamacare social security benefit reduction needs based social security eliminate cost of living increases social security raise the full eligibility age to 70 transportation department eliminate us postal service privatize comments  