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For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending. -- Mike Pence
Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social Security in payroll taxes into the system. -- Chris Chocola
My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll. -- Billy Corgan
More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent. -- Alex Tabarrok
Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll. -- Dusty Baker
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes. -- Barack Obama
Money has to be put in the way a club feels it should. If you put money in a new ballpark, that helps to generate revenue so you can spend more money. It should be spent to make the club's operations the best. That will help in the end, and it will mean enhanced payroll. -- Bud Selig
Her Majesty's Secret Service wouldn't have me on the payroll. -- Colin Farrell
Government jobs are not an addition to the country's payroll; they are an increase in the nation's payload. -- Ilana Mercer
I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things. -- Alan Coren
Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress. -- Ludwig von Mises
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base -- Gavin Newsom
Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat! -- Prince
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The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes. -- John Shadegg
Republicans want to punish work and reward wealth; hence the high payroll tax and the low dividend tax. Said one Bush economic adviser, if we can't help wealthy investors and screw working people, what's the point in being a Republican? -- Paul Begala
There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in power have liked to control music, they used to throw songwriters in jail throughout history, and were assassinated. -- Pete Seeger
The challenge for any government is how do you do two things at the same time. How do you put money forward for things like the payroll tax holiday, for things like getting a jump-start on infrastructure, for building schools, and make the decisions for long-term deficit reduction. -- Jacob Lew
I worked a telemarketing job. I always worked those because I always knew how to talk to people and I always knew how to sell because my father was a salesman. He used to sell vacuum cleaners, payroll services to companies, so that was natural for me to go into sales. -- Kanye West
I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less -- Meg Whitman
The big story now is that President Bush is coming under attack for his service in the National Guard. The White House said, 'no no,' that they have payroll records to show that he served in the National Guard. But today, the commanding officers can't remember seeing Bush between May and October of '72. President Bush said, 'Remember me? I'm the drunk guy. Remember me?' -- Jay Leno
I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax. -- David Dewhurst
The biggest thrill wasn't in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday. -- Art Rooney
I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things. -- Alan Coren
The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession. -- Mark Zandi
I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual. -- Andre Rieu
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base. -- Gavin Newsom
In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called Harvest in Ohio. -- Ben Shahn
It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty. -- James Roosevelt
I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out. -- Mark Skousen
The clearest way to cut some of this fiscal drag would be to extend the current payroll tax holiday and increase it - as proposed by President Barack Obama. This would cut the fiscal drag by almost half. -- Mark Zandi
I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they would have an incentive to buy now rather than defer. I would also give to the states $40 billion of relief. -- Bob Graham
The curious thing is Americans don't mind individual mandates when they come in the form of payroll taxes to buy mandatory public insurance. In fact, that's the system we call Social Security and Medicare, and both are so popular politicians dare not touch them. -- Robert Reich
You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering. -- Bill Kurtis
Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays for current benefits; anything that's left over goes into trust funds for the future. The programs were designed this way for political reasons. -- James Surowiecki
Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction. -- Chris Christie
It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions. -- Campbell Newman
I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less. -- Meg Whitman
Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees. -- John Mackey
Russia does not have a modern economy: it's a petro-power. The only thing it sells that the world wants to buy is oil and natural gas. When was the last time anyone bought a Russian computer? A Russian car? A Russian cell phone? Russia is so dependent on high energy prices that if oil falls below $100 a barrel, the Kremlin can't meet payroll. -- Kathleen Troia McFarland
Ive never supported a payroll tax. -- David Dewhurst
A real friend or mentor isn't on your payroll. -- Prince
The payroll tax is affecting sales. It's causing sales declines. -- Fred DeLuca
If you hire relatives, you'll have a payroll that won't quit. -- Milton Berle
If I had the Rangers payroll, I'd never lose a game -- Glen Sather
Every American worker should be able to save for retirement via payroll deductions. -- Richard Thaler
I was on Khodorkovsky's payroll myself for ten years. I'm biased because I respect him. -- Vladislav Surkov
I never stole nuttin' unless it began with an 'A' - A truck, a car, a payroll...! -- Rocky Graziano
Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll. -- Helen Hanson
Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple. -- Seth Godin
It struck me that most businesses have less than 100 employees, but most payroll services were going after bigger companies. -- Tom Golisano
The payroll tax increase was destructive financially, it took what was a close call and made it a bad call, -- Mike McGavick
Be prepared for the creation of an intrusive bureaucracy to police the ordinance by examining the books and payroll ledgers of businesses... -- Randy Hamilton
Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises. -- Sandy Alderson
If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office. -- Warren Buffett
I am not a great fan of the payroll tax holiday because I'm nervous about what it does to the future of Social Security. -- Bernie Sanders
Yeah, well, he's still on Dark-Hunter payroll, so tell him to keep his phone turned on. (Talon) Ooo. Getting testy in your fierce nakedness. (Kyrian) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Electronic Accounting Systems processed my little payrolls like one big payroll. I did the selling, and the people I hired did most of the operations. -- Tom Golisano
I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut. -- Jacob Lew
There is basically no one not on the payroll of Exxon Mobil or coal companies who any longer contend that this is not something to worry about. -- Bill McKibben
I have always maintained that if a program is to be successful, it must... be voluntary... based on need and must not be financed through a payroll tax. -- Thruston Ballard Morton
The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she's paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. I mean it is - I never had it so good. -- Warren Buffett
The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes. -- Chris Alexander
I came up with the idea for what later became Paychex in 1970 when I was working for Electronic Accounting Systems, a company that sold payroll processing to companies with 50 to 1,000 employees. -- Tom Golisano
Open the borders to willing workers from any and all nations. They will create businesses that pay taxes, especially payroll taxes to fund Medicare and Social Security benefits of retiring baby boomers. -- Louis Navellier
Make no mistake, if the payroll-tax cut is extended, it will become permanent. Social Security will become another welfare program as the tie between what someone pays and what they receive gets broken. -- Ari Fleischer
I may be a little old-fashioned, but I actually believe that if you live and work in our house and you work on our payroll and you take oaths, then integrity matters in elections. -- Matthew Dowd

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