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Reuters Wants to Know How You Are Dealing With Payroll Tax Hike
Reuters via Twitter ^ | Friday, January 11, 2013

Posted on 01/11/2013 8:19:51 AM PST by kristinn

Paycheck looking lighter? How are you adjusting spending after the payroll tax-hike? Contact jason.lange@thomsonreuters.com or @langejason


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: payrolltax; socialsecurity
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For those willing to take a chance, here's a chance to vent about the payroll tax hike.
1 posted on 01/11/2013 8:20:00 AM PST by kristinn
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To: kristinn

clipping more coupons. someone has to pay for the president’s 4 million dollar golf vacations.


2 posted on 01/11/2013 8:30:09 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: kristinn

Actually, there should have never been a “payroll tax cut”, so the “payroll tax hike” is not a bad thing (given the premise that Social Security is here to stay for the next few years, anyway). The “payroll tax cut” was simply a move by 0bama to look like he was cutting everyone’s taxes.


3 posted on 01/11/2013 8:31:10 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: kristinn

I am no longer sending money directly to Barack Obama to help him defray the expenses of those frequent Hawaii vacations.


4 posted on 01/11/2013 8:34:11 AM PST by Lazamataz (LAZ'S LAW: As an argument with liberals goes on, the probability of being called racist approaches 1)
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To: kristinn
Next Tuesday (the 15th) will be a fun day to taunt all the Obama voters who will be looking at their paychecks for the first time in 2013. Twitter will be one of the best sources of comedy on that day.

Today is payday for a lot of Obama voters, too. And there are some real comic gems on Twitter.

Brittany ‏@britbb 30 bucks less in my paycheck today. Thanks a lot, Obama. #fiscalcliff

peterepublic ‏@peterepublic My paycheck is missing a tank of gas this week. What gives Obama?

Caleb Randol ‏@CalebAndRandol #Obama you lied to me. You said taxes wouldn't go up. You promised. My paycheck disagrees. Thought you were for students. Not cool.

https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=paycheck+obama&src=typd
5 posted on 01/11/2013 8:35:31 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: kristinn

co workers increasing the dependents on their ww2’s....


6 posted on 01/11/2013 8:36:08 AM PST by cherry
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To: kristinn

Spending less on trivialities and more on ammunition and other staples.


7 posted on 01/11/2013 8:39:55 AM PST by tbpiper
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To: All

Obama voters whining about their paychecks on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=paycheck+&src=typd


8 posted on 01/11/2013 8:42:35 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: kristinn

I’ll be cutting back on my 401K (or maybe eliminate) contributions.

As I see it, our 401K’s will be the likely next target in the coming year(s). What is the penalty of early withdrawal of the entire 401K?

I might as well get something then nothing later on.


9 posted on 01/11/2013 8:44:19 AM PST by CapnJack
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To: kristinn

Lost about $150 every two weeks. Not amused.


10 posted on 01/11/2013 8:45:08 AM PST by TheRhinelander
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Basic economics: The FedGov produces nothing and only consumes. Dollars sent to the FedGov are spent with nothing to show for them. Dollars spent in the private sector produce goods and services, multiplying themselves many times.

My family is cutting back on spending in the private sector because more of our dollars are being forcibly taken by the public sector.

As others do the same, the private sector, from whom the dollars are extracted by the public sector, will shrink. The public sector will receive fewer and fewer dollars to consume.

It is the very simple equation seen most clearly in the host-parasite relationship. Eventually, both the host and the parasite die.

11 posted on 01/11/2013 8:49:23 AM PST by Dr. Thorne ("How long, O Lord, holy and true?" - Rev. 6:10)
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To: TheRhinelander

“It was never yours to begin with. Just be thankful you’re allowed to keep what we let you keep.” - Lord Barry


12 posted on 01/11/2013 8:51:08 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: kristinn

Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 provides a two percentage point payroll tax cut for employees, reducing their Social Security tax withholding rate from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent of wages paid.

http://www.irs.gov/uac/Payroll-Tax-Cut-to-Boost-Take-Home-Pay-for-Most-Workers%3B-New-Withholding-Details-Now-Available-on-IRS.gov

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So the Social Security Tax withholding rate returns to the 6.2% which was reduced by 2% for two years during 2011-2012.


13 posted on 01/11/2013 8:51:31 AM PST by deport
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I WAS going to buy a new pickup, but not now. The money I budgeted for payments are now being taken from my pay check as taxes. I hope whom ever the obozo is giving my money to uses it wisely.
14 posted on 01/11/2013 8:54:40 AM PST by drypowder
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To: TheRhinelander

Same here...I will probably have to decrease my 401k deferral.


15 posted on 01/11/2013 8:54:57 AM PST by halo66
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To: halo66

The way I look at it I simply never got that raise last July. Also, for some reason my federal and state withholding went down.


16 posted on 01/11/2013 8:56:47 AM PST by TheRhinelander
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To: kristinn

“How are you adjusting spending after the payroll tax-hike?”

spending and saving less

D’OH!


17 posted on 01/11/2013 9:00:19 AM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: jimbo123
Next Tuesday (the 15th) will be a fun day to taunt all the Obama voters who will be looking at their paychecks for the first time in 2013.

Obama voters? Paychecks? Bless your heart.

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18 posted on 01/11/2013 9:08:04 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJvTOio)
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To: CapnJack
What is the penalty of early withdrawal of the entire 401K?

I believe it's 10% plus the whole withdrawal is treated as regular taxable income, at your current marginal rate. If your entire withdraw was within the 15% bracket, for example, the total hit would be 25%.

19 posted on 01/11/2013 9:11:16 AM PST by kevkrom (If a wise man has an argument with a foolish man, the fool only rages or laughs...)
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To: jimbo123
Those Tweets are hilarious.

I clicked on a random picture of one of the paycheck complainers.

A narcissistic Obama voter, who now wonders why he has less money.

20 posted on 01/11/2013 9:16:38 AM PST by SkyPilot
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