“”Well, if you work and don’t feel lighter in the wallet next year I will be amazed.””
After 55 years of working, I decided I needed some time to enjoy life. For much of that time my husband and I were self employed so we paid at double the rate of the payroll tax deduction.
I don’t know anyone now working who expected the decrease in the payroll tax rate to last so that’s why I don’t feel that going “back to original rates” (at least since 1990) is a tax increase.
In other words, you don't think the working poor will feel it. How tender your feelings must be for them.