JEEPERS, What a SURPRISE! Look who gets the fattest checks from Trump's "payroll tax cut."

[Miles Archer]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/trump-is-using-the-coronavirus-crisis-to-to-launch-a-stealth-attack-on-social-security/

[CaptYossarian]

1. He even looks like the Grinch.

[flibbitygiblets]

3. If the Grinch ate nothing but spam

[CaptYossarian]

4. If that's the Lorax in your message box, you're probably

an expert on Dr. Seuss characters and would know the Grinch's diet.

[BlueWeirdo]

2. Not those that need it that's for sure.

It's such a terrible idea.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. It defunds SSI, doesn't it?

[Miles Archer]

7. Yes.

What Trump is proposing to cut, to be clear, are Federal Insurance Contributions Act payments. As the name indicates, these payments are not general taxes, but insurance contributions, or, in today’s parlance, insurance premiums. By law, they can only be used to pay Social Security insurance benefits and their associated administrative costs. Social Security has no borrowing authority. Consequently, Social Security does not and, by law, cannot, add even a penny to the deficit. If Social Security were ever to have insufficient revenue to cover every penny of these costs, those benefits would not be paid.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/trump-is-using-the-coronavirus-crisis-to-to-launch-a-stealth-attack-on-social-security/

[Ilsa]

6. If a worker cannot report for duty,

how do they benefit from a tax cut during an emergency when they aren't getting paid?

[lame54]

8. Again - trying to exploit a tragedy