@Leon Said 
Shino, you're always better off putting things in quotes so people can respond better to what exactly is creating the stir. Just posting a nameless link only garners BS like the responses you've been getting, as all they have to go by is your opinionated title, and many don't want to click on a link anyways.
What the issue is about is regarding the payroll tax cut that Obama passed (through Congress) for this 2011 year - his last stimulus measure. Instead of a $400 income tax rebate, as previously done, a 2% reduction was placed on the social security deduction that everybody pays - going from 6.2% to 4.2%.
This is set to expire Jan. 1, 2012.
Obama wants to extend this stimulus, of course, but many Republicans do not, hence the outcry in the article you posted. Those in the outcry are claiming the Republicans to be hypocrites, having taken such a hardline stance on extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, yet wanting to end these Social Security tax cuts on the low & middle class.
What is worse, they say, is that a few Republicans are even saying that the reason is the toll the less revenue would have on the debt.
Sound familiar?
Yeah, I keeps forgetting that most of the Obama-haters only can read picture books!
I'll try harder to find something more on their level!
Aug 21, 2011 @ 14:25:35
