[freeper12]

>>Everyone does NOT pay payroll taxes.

Everyone who gets a paycheck, pays payroll taxes...what is your point?

[Wphile]

Well, actually there are lots of people who don't pay any payroll taxes either. It's a little thing called the Earned Income Tax Credit and it is a refundable credit for people earning less than $30,000 but don't pay any income tax so they are refunded a portion of their payroll taxes through the tax credit...ie., they get a check even though they didn't pay any income taxes.

[YaYa123]

Begala was saying "everyone pays payroll taxes" so, a payroll tax holiday, he said, is the only fair way to dole out a tax break to everyone. He's wrong...retired people don't pay payroll taxes. Hilarious that Begala would stupidly deny that huge voting block of retired people, a tax break. Even funnier because his recommendation would take money away from the untouchable social security lock box, that same sacred box democrats have vowed never to disturb.

[MindyW]

>>Everyone does NOT pay payroll taxes. Everyone who gets a paycheck, pays payroll taxes...what is your point?

You're wrong. I worked for the Feds for 11 years and paid no payroll taxes. I paid into the Civil Service Retirement Fund. Also, nobody in Congress pays payroll taxes on their congressional earnings. A lot of local governmental agencies also have their own retirement systems and they pay no social security taxes.