Payroll tax break a joke
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Editor,
To my representatives in Congress: frankly, I am appalled, not because of the bickering over the extension of the “payroll tax break,” but because Congress and the Administration even undertook such an action. How can it be called a “tax cut” when it is a simple, additional rifling of the (presumptive) Social Security Trust Fund?
That “rifling” process began about 50 years ago and has proceeded unabated ever since. All this most recent act does is hasten the day when, in reality, no more Social Security checks will be available for those who have been forced to pay into the fund all their working lives. The Administration and Congress, rather than patting themselves on the back for letting people “keep” this small amount of money, should be ashamed of the way they have, over time, shown an unforgivable lack of common sense in handling the taxpayers’ money in almost all respects.
Bob Hanson
Dayton
