The Democratically led US Senate (led by Harry Reid) not only failed to pass a required Federal Budget for the Xth time in a row, but left in place Tax Increases for 2013.
Those tax increase will hit every working American with higher taxes next year and especially on the working poor.
For the working poor, their Federal tax will increase from 10% to 15% (a fifty percent increase) and their Social Security tax will increase by an additional 2%.
I should say Obama's 'working poor' will receive a Whopping tax increase left under his leadership (really a lack thereof). Especially his lack of care for the poor.
OK. You confused me with the “yes, you stay at 15% but...” in the OP. I thought that maybe there really was a “poor tax”. Nothing surprises me anymore.