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Lower the payroll tax for people who make less than 110,000 and remove the cap for people who make more than 110,000.

Created by A.M. on February 13, 2013

If you have a pre-tax income of $50,000 per year, the fiscal-cliff deal means that you will pay about a thousand dollars more in payroll taxes in 2013. If your income is $111,000, you will pay about two thousand two hundred dollars more. And if you earn a million dollars you will pay—also two thousand two hundred dollars. (The Wall Street Journal has a calculator.) There is a cap, which means that the working poor and middle class pay a higher proportion of their income than the rich. And the richer one gets, the greater the unfairness

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