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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe idea of canceling our payroll taxes might be a good idea, but on the other hand? Forget it!
It would be nice, but then Trump will tax us more when it all gets back to normal!
drray23
(7,637 posts)imanamerican63
(13,817 posts)Kota
(901 posts)Go to do your taxes and you owe more because they weren't deducting enough from your paycheck.
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)are social security, medicare and the like right? Not federal income taxes.
imanamerican63
(13,817 posts)Someone will be hurt!
samnsara
(17,640 posts)imanamerican63
(13,817 posts)we can do it
(12,197 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,474 posts)to pandemic that will cost hundreds of billions of dollars is to cut revenue needed to fight the problem and pay for Medicare/Medicaid.
Tech
(1,773 posts)The Pentagon seems to have extra money to throw around. Or maybe bring back the taxing of the 1%. Or have trumps campaign pay money owed to communities so those communities can help their citizens. Or stop golfing. Pull military out of Saudi Arabia.
He needs to leave social security and Medicare alone.
solara
(3,836 posts)trump knows cutting SS and Medicare might really hurt him with his older, voting minions, so he is creating a quasi-legitimate back door to get his Medicare and Social Security cuts without any consequences to him. His rich friends will love him more and people like me could well be on the street, literally. It's a very scary proposition, especially since many of the talking heads on MSNBC have yet to mention trump's nefarious and obfuscated "tax cuts"
This has gotta be the worst nightmare ever...