“The Republicans are going to be hurt badly over the payroll tax issue.
The Republicans want to effectively raise taxes on working people. “
The Republicans’ way of paying for the payroll cut is better. They only get hurt because the media falsely portrays them as against the cut. Everything is their fault.
Better to just send checks to these people.
“The Republicans’ way of paying for the payroll cut is better. “
All politics is local... the only economy that matters is the individual’s economy.
With that in mind, an independent sees a GOP that will shut down the government over taxes on the wealthy. But, when it comes to taxes on that independent, that person’s personal taxes, the GOP will fight to let them go up.
You may scoff, but symbolism matters. And if I’m making $50k and suddenly it becomes $49k, and it’s substantially because of the GOP. I know who I’ll punish.