The GOP Payroll Tax Cut/UI Extension Proposal
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | December 9th at 12:04 PM |
“will they finally hold the line on their own promises this time, or will they pass all the extensions without the reforms, riders, and spending offsets? This package must be the final offer.” Earlier today, House Republican leaders unveiled their package deal to extend the payroll tax and unemployment benefits for another year and to continue Medicare ‘doc fix’ for another two years. While bipartisan | Read More »
GOP Should Launch Offensive in Payroll Tax Fight
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | December 6th at 11:19 AM |
“in typical Democrat asinine fashion, they are promulgating a defacto permanent tax cut by telegraphing to the public that it is only temporary, thereby minimizing the pro-growth effect of the tax cut.” After decades of monstrous lies about Social Security, Democrats have finally blown the cover off their stratagem. They have always proclaimed that our payroll taxes were held securely in a trust fund in | Read More »
OK, Obama, Repeal the Entire Payroll Tax..But Save Social Security
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | August 29th at 01:00 PM |
After Labor Day, Obama plans to unveil his highly unanticipated jobs plan. Much like his first jobs plan, this one will include massive stimulus handouts to special interests, prodigal infrastructure spending (as much as $556 billion), unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefits, and more welfare transfer payments. Concurrently, he will inveigh against “rich” job creators and offer a healthy dose of vapid rhetoric regarding regulatory reform. | Read More »