Poll: Raise taxes, retirement age, not cut Social Security benefits

Fifty-three percent in the Associated Press-GfK poll prefer increased taxes and a higher retirement age to cutting Social Security benefits.

Social Security trustees say the massive retirement and disability program will run out of money by 2033 unless changes are made.

Forty-seven percent said they trust President Obama to do a better job on Social Security; 44% prefer presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Taking margin of error into account, that’s a tie.

GfK is a Roper poll. 

To read the story in the Beacon Journal, click on http://www.ohio.com/news/nation/ap-gfk-poll-raise-taxes-to-save-social-security-1.329796