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It should have never been done in the first place. It hurt social security /nt
still_one
Jan 2013
#79
It was called a 2% tax holiday and it just expired. You are now paying what you were....
OldDem2012
Jan 2013
#2
This is what you pay so that you can receive a semi-decent social security payment at retirement.
dkf
Jan 2013
#5
The initial payments have been the same percentage of your income since 1990.
Ms. Toad
Jan 2013
#132
Chained CPI will affect initial payments because they too will not go up with the generally
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#83
They use the average wage index to calculate your initial payments, not CPI or chained CPI.
dkf
Jan 2013
#175
Temp decrease for employee contribution, 6.2% to 4.2%, expired. Returned to previous rate.
pinto
Jan 2013
#6
Yet, I bet you are one that complains whenever your car hits a pothole.
Live and Learn
Jan 2013
#165
Just so you know, Obama and many Democrats wanted to keep the lower SS withholdings.
denverbill
Jan 2013
#10
I don't want the lower withholdings. I paid the higher taxes and am now on Social Security.
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#84
I don't want to make light of this situation, but the increase oin deductions is 2%!
napi21
Jan 2013
#32
Not to mention the prices are higher than two years ago for a variety of goods
Puzzledtraveller
Jan 2013
#139
It isn't a pittance, but someone earning $50,000 per year is doing a lot better
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#99
Looks like someone didn't prepare. What about temporary holiday didn't you understand?
lonestarnot
Jan 2013
#14
You will find little sympathy here, it is less a trait these days of the left
Puzzledtraveller
Jan 2013
#142
If the tearorists succeeded to make you struggle too much, maybe DUers could...
Amonester
Jan 2013
#21
Actually if that cut continued it would change the very nature of Social Security..
madfloridian
Jan 2013
#23
Just to be clear, the holiday actually decreased SS taxes to 10.4% from 12.4%
AZ Progressive
Jan 2013
#51
Yes, I do have a check for this month. By tomorrow, everyone paid weekly will.
NCTraveler
Jan 2013
#43
I have scant experience with 'weekly payroll' jobs. So please explain how and why you are paid
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2013
#155
At the end most Democrats and Republicans wanted it to expire, only President Obama was
PoliticAverse
Jan 2013
#76
I guess we should just let the people who can't find work starve or die of exposure.
hunter
Jan 2013
#75
Every last person does have the ability to say "Take this job and shove it"
FlowerGurl
Jan 2013
#107
That is simply not true. Tax rates are counted from the time and place you did the work, not
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2013
#157
If you people keep helping to elect republicans that is almost guaranteed.
Little Star
Jan 2013
#176
You are being asked to pay the Social Security tax that you used to pay before Obama
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#82
Welcome to DU! stoopid hurtz i hurd /no further text follows after this period.
green for victory
Jan 2013
#103
All this bitching and whining is why this tax holiday was the dumbest idea, period.
SammyWinstonJack
Jan 2013
#158
BTW, I wonder how many people know that a total of 12.4% of their income goes toward SS
AZ Progressive
Jan 2013
#192
You worked ONE-TWO day this year and your paycheck went down by an uncomfortable amount?
GeorgeGist
Jan 2013
#203
I just got my first fortnightly paycheck for 2013. It's $113.08 less than my previous paycheck.
slackmaster
Jan 2013
#204