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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe payroll tax funds Social Security Idiot
Trump says he doesn't know why we shouldn't get rid of the payroll tax.
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The payroll tax funds Social Security Idiot (Original Post)
Ohioboy
Apr 2020
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I guess replace it with a 1099 so the employer doesn't have to pay his share of anything.
LiberalArkie
Apr 2020
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malaise
(268,726 posts)1. OAN n/t
unblock
(52,126 posts)2. That's his plan isn't it?
MyOwnPeace
(16,920 posts)3. But...but......
NOBODY knows more about taxes than he does (so he says).
former9thward
(31,949 posts)4. SS will be funded no matter what
Obama eliminated the payroll tax in 2011-2012 and nothing happened to SS.
https://www.cnn.com/2012/02/22/politics/obama-payroll-tax/index.html
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)5. we don't need SS, we all just put money in the stock market...
and wait for it to be trashed by GOP incompetence.
Bluepinky
(2,265 posts)7. You mean stolen by them.
Botany
(70,449 posts)6. If you don't have a job you are not getting a payroll check.
The fucker is nutz.
ProfessorGAC
(64,877 posts)8. At Least The Taxes Are Zero
Says every supporter of the cult leader.
LiberalArkie
(15,703 posts)9. I guess replace it with a 1099 so the employer doesn't have to pay his share of anything.
It would all be on the employee
Chainfire
(17,474 posts)10. I think it is a grand idea
The workers have been carrying the wealthy for decades, maybe it is time for them to belly-up to the bar.
It is just another case of Trump trying to buy votes with someone else's money.