Republican's Newest Plan for Payroll Tax

Republicans Unveil Plan for Payroll Tax

Authors: Jennifer Steinhauer and Robert Pear

Published: December 8, 2011

The House Republicans have decided to go against the Senate Democrats and Obama by presenting payroll tax holiday bill. This bill suggests an oil pipeline, changes to social programs and added unemployment benefits. The bill suggests the construction of the oil pipeline, Keystone XL, from Canada to the Gulf Coast to be hurried, the White House has been pushing this construction back. This bill will provide loopholes for more pollution to occur, it ease up the Environmental Protection Agency rules on toxic air pollutants from commercial and industrial boilers and would prevent the agency from suggesting a new standard of one later. The Republican's plan also pushes to "increase Medicare beneficiaries end food stamps and unemployment insurance benefits for millionaires, sell some federal assets, freeze the pay of federal employees, including members of Congress, and reduce the number of federal workers by about 10 percent through attrition". This bill has brought many frowns to the faces of the board in Senate and President Obama. President Obama suggests,

“Rather than trying to figure out what can they extract politically from me in order to get this thing done, what they need to do is be focused on what’s good for the economy, what’s good for jobs and what’s good for the American people.” Which is exactly what the Republicans should focus on. One republican's response to the bill was “The fact that the president doesn’t like it makes me like it even more.”