If B*** kills SS in favor of privatization, does that mean that employers

[johnaries]

will no longer pay half?

Currently, employers pay half of the SS payments, 6.2% of the worker's salary.

Is this what Bushit is REALLY after? So his Corporate buddies no longer have to pay their half of SS?

:nuke:

[benburch]

1. Bingo!

You win the Kewpie Doll!

[johnaries]

2. Then why haven't more people discussed this angle?

You'd think this is something that Dems would want to point out to Mid-America!

[Inland]

4. Actually, the righties bring it up and lie about it

saying that the employers would just pass along their entire share of 6.2% as higher wages.

Nobody knows if or how much of the employer would pass along, but since Bush isn't suggesting lowering the tax but diverting it into privatized account, it doesn't seem relevant right now.

[Warpy]

3. Right, and he's trying to get them off the hook for health insurance

by ending the business deduction for covering the cost of employee health insurance.

This looks like it's aimed against corporations, but we know it's really a ploy to let them completely off the hook, to force their employees to cover the cost of their insurance 100%, whether or not the corporation still maintains the insurance pool.

This bunch is the most anti American, unchristian, coldhearted bunch of reptiles the country has ever seen. In the 19th century, they could get away with pleading ignorance. They can't do that any more. They know exactly what will happen when large numbers of people who are making barely enough to survive on get hit with huge insurance bills.

"We're gonna offshore your job ASAP, anyway, so you might as well die."

[indianablue]

5. You really pay it all...

Just casue they pay hald does not mean they do nto factor it into your wages. You just get paid 6.2 % less than what than they would normally pay you. Just liek they have down with ovettime. They cut the wages down where OT wages used to be what you go for regular hours.

[rniel]

6. When he says "Ownership Society"

He means he helps those that own ...and those that don't get their legs cut out from under them

[OKNancy]

7. No, as I understand it

( which isn't much I admit) employers will still pay their half.
As an employer, all I see is more paper work.