claim: "large majorities" of the public "oppose major changes to medicare" and favor higher taxes on the wealthy.
author: paul krugman
evidence_1: sep 27, 2017 ... the trump administration's tax plan provides large benefits for the wealthy,  modest benefits for the middle class — and no direct benefit to the poor. ... six  charts that help explain the republican tax plan. the bill makes major  changes to the tax code by lowering rates for individuals and corporations.
evidence_2: 3 days ago ... senate republicans passed a $1.5 trillion tax bill early saturday morning that  bestows extensive benefits on corporate america and the wealthy while ... it  repeals the individual mandate from the affordable care act, a major change that  was added in recent weeks as part of a broader gop effort to ...
evidence_3: apr 10, 2017 ... a significant majority of americans not only oppose such tax cuts but would  support higher taxes on the wealthy and big corporations. ... taxes further will  make it easier for majority leaders in congress and the trump administration to  claim that massive cuts to programs such as social security, medicare, ...
evidence_4: large majorities of americans say they don't mind paying social security taxes  because of the security and stability the benefits provide to millions of retired ...  an even higher percentage (83%) say it is critical to preserve social security  even if it means increasing the social security taxes paid by wealthy americans.
evidence_5: more conservative than the american public as a whole with respect to important  policies concerning taxation, economic regulation, and especially .... of fairly  large firms. these adjustments substantially increased the wealth levels within  our sample, while min- imizing the risk of excluding genuinely wealthy house-  holds.