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Paul Kanjorski: On Obama and Congress

Cutting the Social Security Tax for Two Years
By Diane Giles Posted on May 1, 2011

Anybody with a brain knows that just before next year’s elections, when the tax cut is set to expire, there are 130 million Americans who are going to say, “You want you to take $1,000 or $2,000 away from me?” That’s insane.

So we know that’s not coming back. So we now have absolutely crippled the Social Security program. Starting from this point on, the money is being drained at the rate of $100 billion a year.

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