(12-28-2017 09:50 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  I ask about "percentage of the payroll tax verses percentage of corporate income tax" because it shows a clear shift in responsibility.

And I pointed out that people tax rates are just about the same because it shows that the change in total pay is not purposeful but coincidence.

Quote:If we need to put more money in the hands of spenders then cut the payroll tax rate and extend the tax on wages above 118k.

As much as that would please me, given I would benefit a bit, that "extra money" would get extracted from corporations and thus be lost to increased product and service costs.

Quote:Payroll taxes accounted for twice as large a chunk of GDP in 2016 than they did in 1967.

But an individuals payroll tax was nearly the same. You come at this from identity / group politics, and I do not.

I just got a tax cut, should I care that my employer got a bigger one?