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7,000 Ways to Fix the Deficit (Re: NYT budget puzzle)
By DAVID LEONHARDT
Published: November 20, 2010

... The single least popular choice was allowing the expiration of the Bush tax cuts on income below $250,000 a year. Fewer than 10 percent of the solutions included that option. But when it came to tax cuts for incomes above $250,000, people’s opinions appeared to diverge according to their political views ...

The most popular option among all respondents? Reducing the military to less than its size before the Iraq war — included in about 80 percent of the solutions ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/weekinreview/21leonhardt.html?_r=1
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