[wcbtinman]

"...if you make past a certain amount, you pay zero payroll taxes."

You may have just mis-spoke, but you will have paid payroll taxes on all income earned up to that point, so you did pay the payroll tax. In fact, you paid more payroll tax than the majority of working Americans just to get to that point.

[Red Jones]

lots and lots of people pay zero payroll taxes at all. I work as a consultant, I get an hourly fee, I pay zero payroll taxes.