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exboyfil

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5. I got a variant

Reply to Goodheart (Original post)

Tue Mar 10, 2020, 04:19 PM

Mar 2020

Reduce the rate for now and eliminate the cap to where you are collecting the same amount of revenue. When the economy starts going again, increase the rate back to its prior value.

I mean who could argue with this.

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trump pitched a 0% payroll tax rate for the rest of this year [View all] Goodheart Mar 2020 OP

what a fucking moron he is Skittles Mar 2020 #1

Apparently You Haven't Heard. jayfish Mar 2020 #2

Hey, fuck the future! nt coti Mar 2020 #3

So what tax form will you receive? greymattermom Mar 2020 #4

I got a variant exboyfil Mar 2020 #5

that adds 3 trillion to the 1 trillion projected budget deficit Under The Radar Mar 2020 #6

He simply wants to destroy Social Security Loge23 Mar 2020 #7

If he looses, it will someone elses problem to run a country with no income LiberalArkie Mar 2020 #8

Payroll taxes are for Social Security and Medicare. MoonchildCA Mar 2020 #9

"Hey Don, throw in healthcare and buy the election why dontcha !!" Jarqui Mar 2020 #10

Welllll ... marble falls Mar 2020 #11

Since day 1 Trump has been working on his seventh bankruptcy. sarcasmo Mar 2020 #12

Any proposal has to get through Pelosi first kurtcagle Mar 2020 #13

Yawn. Give Medicare to all those who will be out of work. Force Mort companies to forego payments Dem2 Mar 2020 #14

This is the payroll tax that FUNDS SOCIAL SECURITY, get it now? Captain Zero Mar 2020 #15

its an excuse to go back and cut social security benefits and medicare, always been a plan, so no beachbumbob Mar 2020 #16

As long as he and McConnell bankrupt SS and Medicare they would win. redstatebluegirl Mar 2020 #17