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White House mulls payroll tax cut to ease economic concerns: Reports
Fox Business News ^ | 08/19/2019 | Thomas Barrabi

Posted on 08/19/2019 7:27:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 08/19/2019 7:27:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Bad idea. Once they start this shell game they will look like they have no faith in their own economic policies.


2 posted on 08/19/2019 7:32:12 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The government toolbox for fighting a recession is pretty empty. There isn’t a lot of room to reduce interest rates. We’re already running trillion dollar deficits so the government can’t increase spending. Just hope it’s not a deep one.


3 posted on 08/19/2019 7:33:50 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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Bad idea. Once they start this shell game they will look like they have no faith in their own economic policies.
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I agree. Keep up the jawboning of the Federal Reserve. And keep on with the Chinese tariff campaigns.


4 posted on 08/19/2019 7:40:10 PM PDT by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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To: DoodleDawg

“Just hope it’s not a deep one.”
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Don’t fall for this latest campaign to cow us and mislead us.


5 posted on 08/19/2019 7:41:58 PM PDT by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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To: SeekAndFind

Haha major trolling going on here. You want to manufacture a fictitious recession, then lets cut taxes to help out your “recession”.


6 posted on 08/19/2019 7:42:07 PM PDT by walkingdead (By the time you realize this is not worth reading, it will be too late....)
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To: Kickass Conservative

they will look like they have no faith in their own economic policies.

I concur. They should not capitulate to this latest media narrative, suggesting any internal misgivings about the economy’s strength.


7 posted on 08/19/2019 7:45:38 PM PDT by edie1960
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To: Kickass Conservative

I agree on the logic but the income tax should be repealed and eliminate the Federal Reserve.


8 posted on 08/19/2019 7:52:45 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: SeekAndFind

The same old crap “Siting sources familiar with the matter”

Trial balloon at best trying to build momentum for what they hope for , a recession and get folks all knock kneed and assuming a fetal position...

Get some new material please


9 posted on 08/19/2019 8:26:43 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wow. Media going full banana to push this recession meme.


10 posted on 08/19/2019 9:37:27 PM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Sweet Saint Skittles bounced dat ole white Craka head off da sidewalk causin he was real skeered.)
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“...citing three sources familiar with the matter...”

Yawn.


11 posted on 08/19/2019 9:38:29 PM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Sweet Saint Skittles bounced dat ole white Craka head off da sidewalk causin he was real skeered.)
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To: SeekAndFind; Mariner; SkyPilot; Rome2000

Robert “Bedsheets” Byrd’s amendment requiring “revenue neutrality” demands that any payroll tax be “funded” through a reduction in benefits.

The payroll tax reduction might be temporary but the benefits reduction will become permanent.


12 posted on 08/19/2019 9:40:12 PM PDT by lightman (Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The Obama administration briefly lowered the tax rate to 4.2 percent in 2011 to 2012 in an effort to boost consumer spending.

13 posted on 08/19/2019 10:15:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What if they threw a recession and nobody came?


14 posted on 08/19/2019 10:34:47 PM PDT by attiladhun2
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I’ll call BS!

Hearsay Loose Lips got on its phone and stroked the ear of an eager Socialist reporter.

Not only unrealistic, but deferring payroll taxes is practically idiotic in so many ways.


15 posted on 08/19/2019 10:44:58 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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White House Denies It Is Considering Payroll Tax Cut To Boost Economy

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-19/white-house-denies-it-consdering-payroll-tax-boost-economy


16 posted on 08/19/2019 10:54:55 PM PDT by Farcesensitive
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The government toolbox for fighting a recession is pretty empty.

What's left? Aside from negative interest rates to drive people to either spend, or start hoarding cash in mattress. There could be a moratorium on corporate taxes to try and increase spending that way, but corporations would likely just use any cash to buy back shares, which they did a lot of during the last recession, and they leveraged up to do it too.

17 posted on 08/20/2019 8:12:21 AM PDT by voicereason (The RNC is like the "One-night stand" you wish you could forget.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I would call that capitulation. It would all but admit that Trump thinks a recession is in the cards.


18 posted on 08/20/2019 9:48:18 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: SeekAndFind

Fox reporting WaPo propaganda. This article IMO is nothing more than propaganda to establish, carry forth the leftist rumor about some recession just over the horizon.

Nothing to see here but propaganda.

I never thought I’d see Fox over the fence back slapping, and fist pumping with the left, but they are most certainly on the other side now.


19 posted on 08/20/2019 12:58:31 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists call 'em what you will they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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As we get closer to 2020, suddenly there is a lot of gloom and doom. Suddenly the economy is on the brink. Suddenly “recession” is commonly heard on TV a lot of the time.

I can’t imagine why...


20 posted on 08/20/2019 1:17:17 PM PDT by Vaden (First they came for the Confederates... Next they came for Washington... Then they came...)
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