The question on CNBC now is should payroll taxes be cut to

[doc03]

create jobs? The Republicans are itching to cut or privatize SS so their solution is to cut payroll taxes and underfund SS even more. So then they can say Oh SS is going bankrupt even faster then we thought it is an emergency we need to make even deeper cuts to save it now.

[rfranklin]

1. cut payroll taxes for those making less than $25,000, increase for those above $100,000

That would be fair.

[doc03]

2. Everyone needs to get their head out of their keyster and

face reality, unless they make draconian cuts in government spending taxes have to go up.

[cliffordu]

3. Taxes need to go up. LOTS.

[HughBeaumont]

7. Sure is hard to think of WHERE these draconian cuts are going to come from . . .

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm . . .




. . . give me some hints, ladies and gentlemen . . . just not coming to me . . .




. . . DAMN I'm at a loss! It's like the answer's right on the tip of my tongue . . .




Social Security? Medicare? Research? "Waste, Fraud 'n' Abuse"?

[DCKit]

5. Heretic. n/t

[jpljr77]

4. Again?!? That was half of the "failed" stimulus program n/t

[GoCubsGo]

6. Exactly right.

Thank you for pointing that out.