In this season some aspects like average salary and occupations are vital for every member of the Congress should study, specially be aware about the severe consequences of the payroll tax cut policies.

HUFFINGTONPOST- Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Congress has an important tax policy decision to make.  With the economy still struggling and one in eleven Americans out of work, January 1 would be an awful time to cut every paycheck in America.  But, every paycheck in America will shrink unless Congress acts to extend, and preferably expand, the payroll tax holiday by the end of the year.

Up and down Wall Street, economists are warning about the severe consequences of inaction on payroll taxes and extended unemployment benefits.  Goldman Sachs estimates that expiration of the payroll tax cut would reduce growth by as much as two-thirds of a percentage point in early 2012.  Moody’s Mark Zandi adds that if Congress does not extend the payroll tax holiday and unemployment benefits for 2012, “there will be approximately one million fewer jobs by year’s end.”

Failure to extend the payroll tax cut would hurt workers in nearly every job and income category.  For example, the nation’s 1.4 million truck drivers, whose salaries average $39,450, would pay $789 more in payroll taxes, on average. The nation’s 2.7 million nurses, whose salaries average $67,720, would lose $1,354, on average…continue reading

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The deadline for the payroll tax cuts are near, although the members of Congress are still refusing to continue tax cuts that represents $1,000 a year for an average family.

 

WASHINGTON- President Obama was in a holiday mood on Tuesday, urging members of Congress not to “be a Grinch” by refusing to continue tax cuts that mean $1,000 a year for the average family.

The payroll tax cuts are set to expire at the end of the year, but Democrats plan to bring the president’s proposal for another vote next week.

“In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we are going to give them another chance,” Obama told a crowd in Manchester, N.H.

Lawmakers are heading home this week for the Thanksgiving break but Obama hit the campaign trail Tuesday, portraying the GOP refusal to extend the payroll tax cuts as the same as actively voting to raise taxes.

“Next week they are going to get to take a simple vote,’ Obama said. “If they vote ‘no’ again, the typical family’s taxes will go up $1,000 next year.”…continue reading.

 

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After several months of negotiations between Republicans and Democrats a debt plan on the deficit panel is included in the most priorities topic on the President’s agenda. Instead of deficit cuts a budget deal could helps to allow policied such as payroll tax cut.

BOSTON- If the deficit-cutting supercommittee fails, Congress will face a crummy choice. Lawmakers can allow payroll tax cuts and jobless aid for millions to expire or they extend them and increase the nation’s $15 trillion debt by at least $160 billion.

President Barack Obama and Democrats on the deficit panel want to use the committee’s product to carry their jobs agenda. That includes cutting in half the 6.2 percent Social Security payroll tax and extending jobless benefits for people who have been unemployed for more than six months.

Also caught up in what promises to be a chaotic legislative dash for the exits next month is the need to pass legislation to prevent an almost 30 percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors. Several popular business tax breaks and relief from the alternative minimum tax also expire at year’s end.

A debt plan from the supercommittee, it was hoped, would have served as a sturdy, filibuster-proof vehicle to tow all of these expiring provisions into law. But after months of negotiations, Republicans and Democrats were far apart on any possible compromise, and there was no indication of progress Saturday.

Failure by the committee would leave lawmakers little time to pick up the pieces. And there’s no guarantee it all can get done, especially given the impact of those measures on the spiraling debt.

Instead of cutting the deficit with a tough, bipartisan budget deal, Congress could pivot to spending enormous sums on expiring big-ticket policies…Continue reading.

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