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Showing Original Post only (View all)I could not have taken a100 dollar monthly tax hike [View all]
Thanks to my president hanging tough I don't have to
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Because the payroll tax cut was apparently the one tax cut they didn't want to extend/alter. n/t
W_HAMILTON
Jan 2013
#3
Not to defend Obama, but the payroll tax cut that was just ended was the same mistaken payroll tax
coti
Jan 2013
#25
Good! We have to fund Social Security and it should have never been cut in the first place.
TheKentuckian
Jan 2013
#36
To the rate that people have paid since the 1980s. It's worth it to have Social Security
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#12
I would have taken an 8% reduction in yearly income. Which would have meant me having to find
JaneyVee
Jan 2013
#5
I'm somewhat serious in the belief we may see tent cities of people living out of their vans
Kennah
Jan 2013
#21
Hey! We who are now retired used to pay those 1300 bucks a year more than you will pay.
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#13
I was told earlier that the $150-$200 that would probably leave each paycheck
alcibiades_mystery
Jan 2013
#10
Buy we did it. We did not have a lot of the things people have today -- cell phones, etc.
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#22
time for the 1% to pay for Iraq and Afghanistan. shoulda listened to us. dipshits.
bubbayugga
Jan 2013
#27