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To: Qbert
gimmicky short-term tax credits to employers

The payroll tax cut is not a cut for employers. It reduces the employee's Social Security withholding. The employer's portion of that withholding has never been cut by this administration.

It is not, nor was it ever intended to be any sort of supply-side tax cut. It is pure Keynesian twaddle -- put a few bucks in the consumer's pocket each week and sit back and watch nothing happen.

21 posted on 08/25/2011 2:44:29 PM PDT by BfloGuy (In old fashioned language, Keynes proposed cheating the workers.)
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To: BfloGuy

Oh, I agree completely on that point. I was referring more to the supposed “incentive to hire” credits that some of his aides have been suggesting.


24 posted on 08/25/2011 2:48:10 PM PDT by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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To: BfloGuy
Why out of the SS account?? Why not general taxes??

Two years without COLA...when will Seniors rise up??

30 posted on 08/25/2011 3:27:06 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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