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fordy on 14 August 2011
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badgenome said:
fordy said:
badgenome said:

Where do you think it would go? The money wouldn't be deducted from my paycheck anymore, so of course it would go to me.

Do you think big business is lobbying to axe social security because they want you to have it and not the government? As soon as that payroll tax drops, so too will your wage, suprisingly by the same amount.

Is big business lobbying for the end of social security? That's news to me. Big business seems quite happy with big government, and why not? According to the government, they're all "too big to fail."

I'm really not sure why you think that, though. My salary is what is, and the cost to my employer is the same with or without social security. How much I actually take home just depends on how much the government deigns to let me keep after they finish rifling through my pockets.


Big business is interested in big government only if it benefits them (ie. Oil subsidies, Bank bailouts). Anything else is regarded as money that they COULD get.