Pay roll tax holiday.

[Prosper]

Is this a way for tRump to mess with Social Security. He makes it sound like a winner but I think he is jeopardizing Social Security.

[Walleye]

1. It's as plain as the nose on his fat face. The whole GOP

Has had a hard-on for Social Security, since before I knew what a hard-on was.

[AirmensMom]

2. How does it even matter

if people aren't working?

I have never seen a more out-of-touch administration in my life! SMDH

[Hoyt]

3. Although smaller scale, Obama's payroll tax cut didn't impact SS directly

because the “shortfall” was paid by General Fund. Of course, many went berserk because that tied deficits to SS to some degree.

Not really a payroll tax holiday supporter, but it does get money to people easily in short-term.

[customerserviceguy]

4. What's jeopardizing Social Security right now

is that payrolls are way, way down. There's no FICA tax on unemployment compensation payments.

Frankly, the plan to have small businesses get forgivable loans with which to keep their workers on a payroll rather than on UC is a good thing for Social Security.

[stopbush]

6. But there is income tax owed on unemployment benefits.

Thank you, Ronald Reagan.

[customerserviceguy]

8. True

I used to be a tax accountant in those days, and it pissed me off powerfully that UC got taxed. But, one of the things that did make sense during those years was the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit, which caused employers to hire from groups that have been particularly disadvantaged during the Great Recession, as we called it.

That Federal income tax does not help the Social Security trust fund. Payrolls help the fund, and I don't see a payroll tax cut as any worse than it was when there was one during the Obama Administration.

[former9thward]

9. That was a bill passed by Congress.

Reagan could not have signed it into law without it being passed.

[stopbush]

11. Yes, but the idea came from the Greenspan Commission, and Reagan

appointed Greenspan to that position.

[JCMach1]

5. Yes, we need temporary UBI now...

[Sherman A1]

7. We need

A permanent UBI.

[EarthFirst]

10. +1

This and healthcare is ‘the new normal’ for society.

The rat-fuckers can fuck all; this is our next move to re-secure the economy.

[JCMach1]

12. Damn straight,...but any floatation device in a stormy