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Politics

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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  1. wareagle   13 years ago

    Bread & circuses. Congress tries to get folks whipped up over $17 a week while hoping we ignore the 15T in debt. It's bullshit, a smokescreen, and one more example of why DC's motto is 'activity disguised as action'.

    Bastards. They hope you won't notice the terminology of a payroll tax "holiday". Holidays end at some point, but political gamesmanship is everlasting.

    1. I   13 years ago

      I did not know that. Thanks.

    2. Alice Bowie   13 years ago

      We're talking the American Public here.

      You know, people that The CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE:

      - is on THEIR SIDE...and
      the rest of us are WRONG

      - is offended by two men in
      San Francisco that got married

      - loves it when we kill Ducks,
      Fish, A-rabs, and Negros

      - hates it when we kill unwanted
      babies

      So, confusing them on the tax code should be a walk in the park.

      1. Crackpot Apocalypse   13 years ago

        It begins.

  2. FD Roosevelt   13 years ago

    "We put those payroll contributions there so as to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions and their unemployment benefits. With those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social security program"

    1. Alice Bowie   13 years ago

      I like FDR. THings have been great since the New Deal and Things have been rather SHITTY since REAGAN.

      1. wareagle   13 years ago

        too bad that's not sarcasm as FDR's greatness only serves to prove Margaret Thatcher's truism about other people's money. SS was introduced when life expectancy was 63. The system is broke, even if you and the rest of the left do not want to believe it.

      2. Old Mexican   13 years ago

        Re: Alice Bowie,

        I like FDR.

        Everybody likes him now that he's dead. If he were a zombie, I don't think even you would like him as much.

      3. 70,000 Japanese   13 years ago

        We no rike.

        1. BigT   13 years ago

          It's fun while you're drinking. Sobering up and acting mature is not so fun.

  3. twistedmerkin   13 years ago

    Gillespie was talking about ME!

    Heh, I'm a dolt enough...

  4. Old Mexican   13 years ago

    Hey, Nick, nice rapport you had there with Tracy!

    Hmmm... Must be the jacket.

    (She's a married woman, FYI.)

  5. Kent   13 years ago

    Okay, you drive a hard bargain, $10 for the jacket.

    Does anyone here really think you're going to get out of a total meltdown of the economy before things get "fixed".

    Oh...Ron Paul 2012. Yah yah.

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