[justlurking]

Democrats would like for super high income earners, the top one percent, who already pay 40 percent of America’s income taxes, to also start paying for everyone’s Social Security benefits.

I've been trying to explain this is the inevitable outcome of reducing the payroll tax on this forum over the past few weeks. But, too many people can't see beyond the end of their nose. As long as THEY don't have to pay the payroll tax, they don't care.

If you think cutting the payroll tax and sticking the bill with people who already pay most of the income tax, then you've joined the Occupy Wall Street protest, at least in principle.

[MarkL]

I've been trying to explain this is the inevitable outcome of reducing the payroll tax on this forum over the past few weeks. But, too many people can't see beyond the end of their nose. As long as THEY don't have to pay the payroll tax, they don't care.

And something else people are forgetting is that for some time now, Social Security has been running in the red, meaning that at least some of the current payout is coming from the general fund. So not only are workers paying for social security benefits from their "contributions," but people who do pay federal taxes are paying for them as well.

Mark

[radioone]

The Cloward/Piven Strategy is named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Their goal is to overthrow capitalism by overwhelming the government bureaucracy with entitlement demands. The created crisis provides the impetus to bring about radical political change.

Create the "crisis" by lowering These Taxes resulting in even the Republicans getting on board to raise taxes on the wealthy. But, even that's not going to be enough to lessen the collapse and cause "real change"

Obama knows what he's doing.