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December 10, 2010
 
NEWS RELEASE
 
 

Social Security Experts Detail Why Payroll Tax “Holiday” is No Gift to Americans

 
Briefing reporters today, National Committee President Barbara Kennelly, Social Security Works Co-Director Nancy Altman and CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker warned that passage of a payroll tax holiday could have devastating effects on Social Security’s long-term financing.
 
“As we’ve seen in Washington these days, it’s easy to enact tax cuts but virtually impossible to allow them to expire.  This payroll tax holiday proposal will be no different.  Election year politics in 2012 will doom the repeal of this $120 billion dollar cut and Social Security beneficiaries will then pay the price. The American people understand we’re in an economic crisis yet they don’t want to trade their future security for a short-term benefit. They didn’t ask Congress to cut their Social Security contributions, in fact, poll after poll shows they’d pay more to preserve Social Security. I salute the House for saying we need to give this deal another look because this payroll tax provision is no deal at all.”…Barbara B. Kennelly, President/CEO National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare

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