I don’t distinguish between amounts of money taken from your pay by the government. For those under the SS and MED threshold that is an extra 8% or so from their pay going to the government. We have known for forever that it goes into the same pot. The so-called 47% pay that tax. It might be decades if ever before it’s their turn to get it back. The impact on their household in the here and now is that it is a tax.
not sure I follow......(brain dead this afternoon)