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Nick Gillespie Talks Payroll Tax Cut on Judge Napolitano's Freedom Watch

Nick Gillespie | 12.23.2011 10:30 AM

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I was on Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano last night, talking about the payroll tax cut brouhaha and making the case for getting rid of "payroll taxes" altogether. Drawing on a recent post, I argue that we should give up the fiction of dedicated taxes that fund Social Security and Medicare and call it all what it plainly is: income tax.

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Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason and host of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie.

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