[blackdog]

This whole debate is a result of the 8000lb elephant standing in the middle of the room nobody wants to mention......Payroll taxes!

The social security tax and medicaid taxes are brutal on a family earning less than $30,000. Instead of talking about that, it's being avoided like a big pile of dog crap. It's tough to explain that those taxes being confiscated are not "taxes".

Just like a blow-job isn't "sex", some forms of taxes are not "taxes".

Journalists should be taken out back and have their hands broken. Their singular explanation of a multi-point issue(but still simple) like this tax cut is criminal. Jayson Blair did more honest reporting.

[Steven W.]

you don't understand - the objective IS to talk about payroll taxes and the like, to sepearate the wall that previously separated income taxes from social security, so the DemoncRATs can bust open the budget even more.

[ex-snook]

"some forms of taxes are not "taxes". "

We have a bingo. Somehow the GOP has a partitioned view of taxes and isolate income taxes as the only tax that should be cut. These wild and crazy guys are giving W-2 taxes (social security) to those getting dividend tax cuts. Talk about redistribution.

[DLfromthedesert]

The social security and medicare taxes are supposed to fund those programs that these people will want when they retire.

They do NOT pay income tax and so should not get a refund, especially when they already get the EITB, which is welfare!!