[rextorres]

Originally posted by Alpha Kodiak:
Well, let's see. The Social Security tax, the largest of the payroll taxes, is the creation of the liberal darling FDR, and if Bush suggested cutting that, every liberal in the country would be screaming their heads off at the unfairness of it all. Then there is the Medicare tax. The liberals would love it if Bush suggested cutting that one, because they could immediately begin slamming him for cutting services to the elderly. There isn't much else to cut that I can remember on a paycheck stub. Of course, since I haven't seen a real paycheck in over a year (good thing I'm one of those wealthy conservatives), I may have forgotten something. And, yes, I am familiar with the so-called payroll taxes, as I have to pay SE tax on what contracting I can scrounge up, so I get to pay double Social Security. Oh, and you'll have to forgive me for taking the measly $400 per kid, I kind of like feeding them.

I never suggested he should cut the payroll tax. He should just stop spending it - and he should definitly stop using it fund his "tax cut".

Most "liberals" would be for a cut in payroll tax on people like you and me and that doesn't mean cutting social security. "Liberals" have proposed cutting the payroll tax - most of that revenue comes from the working poor after all - but it has been shot down by Republicans. The real underlying reason - of course - is that then they could not have passed an income tax cut which gives most of the money to the wealthy.

So if your situation is truly what you say it is then you are getting your $400 extra per child from Bush but you probably would have been better off with a "liberal" proposal of lowering social security tax and not Bush's proposal of an income tax cut.

EDIT:

I trolled around the internet and found an article in the Washington Post that effectively explains my point.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...nguage=printer

[ September 18, 2003, 08:02: Message edited by: rextorres ]