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ProSense

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2. "By allowing the payroll tax cut to expire"

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Wed Jan 2, 2013, 09:18 AM

Jan 2013

Wait, when the payroll tax cut was enacted, everyone claimed it was a secret Obama plot to undermine Social Security. Now, it's a good thing?

Even those who supported it acknowledged that it had to be temporary.

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An Ugly, Ugly, Ugly Deal by Robert Borosage [View all] xchrom Jan 2013 OP

it was a great deal for the republicans otherwise they wouldnt have passed it..... bowens43 Jan 2013 #1

"By allowing the payroll tax cut to expire" ProSense Jan 2013 #2

You're missing the point. Dawgs Jan 2013 #3