The problem is the phrase "payroll tax".

[alberg]

It's not a "tax", it's an investment.

It's a contribution to an insurance policy that will be available to you in retirement.

Do you call the money that you contribute to a 401k "tax".

No.

So let's call it what it is: a contribution to our Social Security that we will all, hopefuly, benefit from in our later years.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. We used to call it 'payroll deduction' because, like employee sponsored insurance,

it was deducted for our own benefit.

[alberg]

2. I remember that. So I wonder exactly when the frame changed.

When did the word "tax" start to be so consistently tied to Social Security contributions?

[leftstreet]

3. Good question

I don't know