House Passes Payroll Tax Cut Extension (updated 2x, Senate too)

[a2liberal]

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This "temporary" cut is never going to be repealed because that would be a "tax increase". Eventually they're going to stop compensating the SS fund and thus turn thefake Social Security crisis into a real one. This is the first step towards killing Social Security and it bugs me that people don't see that. FDR said nobody could kill Social Security because it's self-funded. We've gone and destroyed that in the name of some temporary benefit. If the tax cut is so important, why can't it be a 2% cut on the lower tax brackets? That would have EXACTLY the same effect on paychecks* and the general budget. The ONLY reason is because that wouldn't give TPTB their backdoor into killing Social Security which is the true purpose of this cut.

*Don't give me some BS about having to wait until tax returns are filled... tax rate changes cause changes in the IRS withholding tables.