Reply #5: Howard Dean explained that holiday payroll tax is a move to empty out

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our social security funds. He says at a time when republicans are complaining it is going bankrupt. I find it maddening that the safety net,social security, for the middle class is being destroyed and being used as a win for us. Look at those measly energy tax credits. Equipment expensing? Not sure how that will work for the small business people who are cash poor and not getting access to credit banks are hoarding? This condenses down to a little over a year of unemployment during a jobless recovery.... and big cash keepings for the rich who will not make jobs....



"What piqued Dean in particular, however, was a provision in the "framework" that provides a one-year, two-percent payroll tax holiday that, critics say, could end up siphoning money from the Social Security Trust Fund. The nation's largest senior-issues lobbying organization, the AARP, said it was comfortable with the provision -- confident that it won't be extended down the road."http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/12/howard-dean-ta...