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RUSH: Perry, Birmingham, Alabama, great to have you on the EIB Network and Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush, how are you?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Very good. Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m from Pittsburgh originally, I want to say, “Go Steelers.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you. What a brutal game last night.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, man.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Did you watch the game last night?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I did. Ben Roethlisberger, man.<\/p>\n
RUSH: How about that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Tough cookie.<\/p>\n
RUSH: How about that. (interruption) No, I was not disappointed not being hit on by the maid. I just wanted to see what would happen.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Anyway. A couple days ago you were talking about the payroll tax deductions —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — and when I became like an employer and I had to withdraw people\u2019s tax money, whatever —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — at first I did it from the (unintelligible) or whatever and then I bought a program. But I was kind of astounded by how many taxes there are, and that as a society we live off of the net pay, we don\u2019t live off of gross pay. And when I tell my friends that 50% of Americans don\u2019t pay federal income tax, they don\u2019t believe me.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I know they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And I think that the people that don\u2019t pay federal income tax, they don\u2019t believe it, either, because they have so many taxes taken out, you can\u2019t keep track of it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know, I think she\u2019s got a great point here. I think there are a lot of people not paying federal income tax that don\u2019t believe it when you tell \u2019em they aren\u2019t because there are so many other deductions on their paycheck.<\/p>\n
CALLER: They don\u2019t even call it Social Security tax, like I might have called it FICA or I might have called it — but my husband\u2019s paycheck has OASDI and I don\u2019t even think that most people that hear that think that the payroll tax is the Social Security tax.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And the only way that Obama could give a large proportion of tax money back is to tax the payroll tax because everybody pays that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n
CALLER: We pay 500 or $600 even a year —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Democrats will also, to counter this argument that 47% of people don\u2019t pay income tax, Democrats say, “What do you mean? The payroll tax is an income tax, don\u2019t give me that crap.” They try to counter the argument that way. She\u2019s got a great point here. That FICA tax, if you want to give across the board tax relief that is apparent to people, you cut that. The problem is you are reducing the funding for Social Security. It\u2019s the only mechanism for it, other than borrowing and printing, of course, but there is no other funding mechanism for Soc. Security. It\u2019s interesting because the people who aren\u2019t paying income tax are the people running around saying that everybody else isn\u2019t paying their fair share. I mean that\u2019s the real irony of this. <\/p>\n
In California, the state income tax there, the top 1% pay 50% of California\u2019s state income taxes, and you\u2019ve got people running around that state saying that they\u2019re not paying their fair share. People that are paying nothing in income tax are telling everybody else that they aren\u2019t paying their fair share. And this is what Obama\u2019s encouraging. But here\u2019s Perry, she becomes an employer where she\u2019s required to deduct all of this stuff from her employees, and it\u2019s the first time she became aware of how many taxes there are. And she\u2019s right. Most people have no idea how they\u2019re taxed. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve always been in favor of making people write their tax checks. For six months — wouldn\u2019t even take that long. It would be a revolution. People would know, after property tax, sales tax, if they write the check, pay by their gross, just give \u2019em the gross but they gotta pay every penny in tax be it check or some physical activity, debit card, but they have to do it and see it deducted from their stash and that\u2019s the way you would stop this and that\u2019s why it will never happen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: Perry, Birmingham, Alabama, great to have you on the EIB Network and Open Line Friday. Hi. CALLER: Hey, Rush, how are you? RUSH: Very good. Thank you. CALLER: I\u2019m from Pittsburgh originally, I want to say, “Go Steelers.” RUSH: Thank you. What a brutal game last night. CALLER: Oh, man. RUSH: Did you watch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n