What a$$holes! The “payroll tax shift” would reduce the employee wages by the amount formerly paid in state taxes. Please tell me how that would be calculated? There is no way to calculate it.
This idea is nothing but a legal fiction. Your employer takes the money right away, when you earn it, and doesn’t give it to you. That is EQUIVALENT to you paying it yourself. Know what a legal fiction is?
And it was calculated on the invalid assumption that the payrate reflected in your current paycheck is valid over the entire year, and not just for that pay period. So if you quit your job during the year, and not Dec 31, the amount the employer took was too much, and you have no way to get it back. How do you plan to get it back? You are assuming that the employer keeps that money in escrow for you, when in reality the employer sent it to the government.