They support a tax cut, a payroll tax cut for employers, for small businesses to help them grow and expand and hire.
The Republicans, in turn, agreed to a series of handouts for humbler folk that they had previously resisted, including an extension of benefits for the unemployed, a cut in payroll taxes and a renewal of Mr Obama's supposedly one-off tax credits for parents and college students.
An industrial policy features a cut in payroll taxes but only for a few industries, which will pay a (smaller) tax on turnover instead.
So we either -- we have to make a decision: Is that subsidy to that industry more important, a better use of American taxpayer dollars than putting teachers back to work, or giving an extended payroll tax cut to American workers, giving a payroll tax cut to small businesses?
But it is proposing a cut in payroll taxes at the bottom, plus a new working tax credit, both of which should boost jobs.
If Republicans support giving middle-class and working Americans a tax cut next year, they should move a payroll tax cut bill that does that.
There is talk of reducing taxes on electricity, which double its cost, and applying to all industries a cut in payroll taxes that was given last year to a select few.
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The other benefit of this is of course that a cut in payroll taxes feeds into the economy as soon as the next paycheques are prepared: a week maybe, certainly within a month.
We are grateful that Congress and we were able to reach the tax cut agreement in December that provided a payroll tax cut for everybody that has helped alleviate the impact of the rising gas prices.
Various parts of the legislation, such as a cut in payroll taxes, will probably now be separated out for consideration.
It has hinted that a cut in payroll taxes granted last year to sectors heavily exposed to foreign competition, such as shoes and software, may be extended to all employers.
We are a long way from full economic recovery, but the last thing we need to do is fail to pass a payroll tax cut extension which would have a negative impact on the kind of economic growth that we have been seeing and need to continue to see.
They should just get it done, and then we can all -- the Senate, the House, the administration -- work on extending the payroll tax cut for the entire year, a commitment this President has made from the beginning when he was the first to put on the table, through the American Jobs Act, a payroll tax cut extension for 2012.
Investors also were encouraged by a break in the latest congressional deadlock, after lawmakers in the House and the Senate voted to temporarily extend a payroll tax cut by two months and agreed to begin negotiations on a yearlong extension.
Congress passed a tax package that included a cut in the payroll tax that should bolster consumer spending, for instance.
Britain's tax on the disposal of waste at landfill sites is being used to pay for a small cut in payroll tax.
This agreement would also mean a 2 percent employee payroll tax cut for workers next year -- a tax cut that economists across the political spectrum agree is one of the most powerful things we can do to create jobs and boost economic growth.
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Last year, we worked together, Republicans and Democrats, to pass a payroll tax cut.
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Yet, the consequences of a deeper cut in the payroll tax are ambiguous at best.
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It also -- his proposal also includes a payroll tax cut for businesses.
Versions of a payroll tax cut have been considered before, and they enjoy a measure of support in Congress.
He has said he would cut sales tax and a special payroll tax.
After all of the drama, Congress managed to push through a payroll tax cut extension just before the holidays.
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If they don't want to vote against a payroll tax cut, they can vote to offset the cost with spending cuts.
By implementing a payroll tax cut, Congress seems to have come up with a convenient way to deliver an individual worker credit.
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And hopefully, we will get a payroll tax cut for small businesses.
All they have to do is pass a payroll tax cut extension and unemployment insurance extension, and then move on to the spending bill.
And you say that ideas are being bandied about as well, including a payroll tax cut for employers, and other ideas are being bandied about.
They should pass a payroll tax cut extension, extension of unemployment insurance, and they can finish the spending bill -- all before leaving on their vacation.
Prior attempts to use a payroll tax cut to encourage firms to boost employment suggest that many businesses will take the subsidy for hiring they would have done anyway.
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