THis is one ´fair´ and ´equal´ tax. If one has a job, one has to pay. And 2% hurts everyone not just the undeserving poor.

But but but, the great won said taxes would not increase for the middle class.

Tell me again about the "earned income tax credit." Now, there´s a waste of taxpayers money!

I really don´t get the math on this.I hear a lot of people saying their taxes went went p but it´s hard to belive because the cut was only 25 of thepayroll tax.
What i think is happening here is the left is ginning up support from bring these cuts back but the SS admin was $58 billion short on revenues last year.

Anyway it´s a form of karma for some of these people who wanted rich people punished and it turned around and bit them instead. the question is why aren´t they madder at Obama who was supposed to put his supporters on easy street.

FTA "“There is something going on,” said Chris G. Christopher Jr., senior principal economist at IHS Global Insight. “The payroll tax seems to be cutting into things.”

Well now, I wonder where this article was back in, oh I don´t know...October or November. The NYT even points out that $20-30 a paycheck is a lot to some people. After limousine liberal lawmakers and pundits all scoffed at that amount.

As Dr. Carson said: Why do we need to hurt anyone?

Everyone new this cut was only temporary, and unlike a "temporary" tax increase, a cut won´t last forever. Let´s face it. SS couldn´t afford that cut to start with. And people wonder why this country is broke (financially)? Oh, yeah. It´s broke in every other way, too.

Elections have consequences.

Yo..yo...BAAAHAAAHAAA.....You want it.....You got it....OBAMA!!!!

I received a 3% raise this December. The first 2% went to SS, the remaining 1% went to income tax. I take home $0.25 less than I did in November. The good news is I increased my 401K by 2% when we received that reduction in SS payments a few years ago. I could have reduced my 401K payment to make up for the loss, but the raise covered that.

I am Taxed Enough Already...

So what´s the problem? Didn´t they read or listen to the news so they knew it was a temporary reduction and would be re-instated at some time? DH took the extra $, put it in an envelope and will have it to pay when tax time comes because the tax table didn´t change, just the amount deducted.

I´m retired, but he´s still working. He hasn´t had a raise in 5 years and last year or the year before Gov. Scott decided all the Florida employees needed to donate 3% to try to reduce the state´s debt. They tell you it´s to help fund retirements but the money goes into the state´s coffers. Was just upheld recently.

What NYT, taxes bad????
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Idiots.

It probably wouldn´t hurt as much if payhecks were not already reduced by, fewer hours (even large companies are giving full-time employees 32 hours rather than 40 per week) higher insurance premiums or eaten up by higher gas, food and utility prices.

Okay...I´m joking. Really. We´re fine out here. The recession ended in ´09 and the economy is moving again. I heard it on the News.s/o

Not once does the name ´Obama´ show in the article. Not once does the work ´promise´ as in broken campaign promise show up in this article. Oh, its the NYT.

PAYROLL tax? Please. Why do we let leftists get away with their focu-group/market-tested misleading language.

It´s SOCIAL SECURITY!!! The "holy" socialist program that is failing! And is failing faster thanks to Obama´s "payroll tax" holiday.

The left calls its "payroll" tax to make low info voters think it is income tax. End of story.

Hey #10, don´t worry. Fedzilla will be waiting in the weeds on you when you go to cash in that 401k. Whether it´s this year, next year, or in 50 years--Fedzilla will be waiting for you. And it is very possible that by the time you go to cash it in, Fedzilla will have grown even more and will be even more hungry for your money by then.

There is no escaping Fedzilla!!

"The only evidence we have that Democrats love the poor is that they consistently back policies that will create more of them."
Ann Coulter

But I thought if we punished the rich then all the poor people would be satisfied.

Guess they´re figuring out nothing could be further from the truth.

So sad, too bad.

We wouldn´t be in this mess if they hadn´t voted for him.

High gas prices, 10% real inflation rates, prices of anything made by unions, healthcare no longer provided due to Obamacare, no jobs due to Obama -- things are looking sour for the lower rung.

This is why temporary tax cuts are a bad idea. I always admired Michelle Bachmann for taking a stand against the temporary payroll tax cut. The last thing that needed to be cut was social security funding.