Swaziland is looking to other countries, including South Africa, for assistance, but continues to struggle to meet its monthly payroll and fund government programs.
They will create businesses that pay taxes, especially payroll taxes to fund Medicare and Social Security benefits of retiring baby boomers.
He wanted to put the system on a sound financial footing and, at the same time, allow Americans to use part of their payroll taxes to fund personal retirement accounts.
Payroll taxes currently fund Social Security benefits, right?
Social security is not in deficit spending at this time, but will require other tax sources by 2015 or it will be paying out more in benefits than it receives in the payroll taxes that fund the program.
Mr. Obama would raise the top income, dividend and capital-gains rates for "the rich, " substantially increasing the cost of new investment in the U.S. More radically, he wants to lift or eliminate the cap on income subject to payroll taxes that fund Medicare and Social Security.
However, Heritage would go in the opposite direction and repeal the payroll tax entirely and fund the (much smaller) Social Security system through the flat tax.
To make matters worse, a permanently temporary tax cut further damages the credibility of the Social Security system which the payroll levy is supposed to fund.
This would mean partially privatising Social Security, letting people set up individual retirement accounts and use part of their payroll taxes (which now fund Social Security) to invest in the stockmarket.
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The Social Security trust fund, together with payroll taxes, is sufficient to cover program benefits for more than the next 20 years.
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Borrowers with post May 31st, 2009 FHA mortgages are excluded from the deeply discounted streamline financing premiums, and are subject to the new higher reserve-fund-subsidizing-payroll-tax-cut-paying premiums.
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After the trust fund is empty, payroll tax revenue would cover 73 percent to 81 percent of benefits, according to estimates from both Social Security and the CBO.
As a result, the rate of payroll taxes for workers used to fund Social Security will increase from 4.2% (which was in place for the previous two tax years) to 6.2% as of January 1, 2013.
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Democrats, of course, will be able to add their own rhetorical flourish by linking the payroll tax cut to tax hikes on hedge fund managers and oil companies.
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Allowing workers to place half the payroll tax into such accounts to pre-fund their retirement would bring to fruition Abraham Lincoln's vision of the true American dream by making every worker an owner.
According to a report from the Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees, the Social Security system is expected to be solvent until about 2037 -- largely because of the surplus in the Trust Fund -- even though the payroll taxes flowing in stop being enough to cover the expenses flowing out in 2017.
If the business fails to pay its payroll taxes, the IRS could assert the trust fund recovery penalty against both the CEO and the bookkeeper.
That, according to a suit filed by the California State Compensation Insurance Fund, was the intention behind Ideal Payroll Plus and Ideal Management, two Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.
Payroll contributions and taxes now flow into a single fund, which distributes the money to insurers according to the number and needs of the patients they enrol.
It is wrong to say that the payroll tax feeds into general revenues and the Trust Fund is not considered government debt (except when the total debt limit has to be raised).
Corporations sell commercial paper, a short-term IOU, to fund day-to-day activities like payroll.
Ms. Wylde said the payroll increase is roughly equivalent to the 0.34% payroll tax imposed on all employers in 2009 to help fund the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
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The White House finally adopted the idea in its 2012 budget, and Congress, in a recent agreement to extend payroll-tax cuts and unemployment insurance, agreed to fund a version of it.
It has become necessary now to redeem some of those trust-fund bonds every year to make up for an annual payroll-tax deficit.
Many companies have balance sheets flush with cash as a result of sharply cutting costs and payroll during the recession, and might want to use that bankroll to fund payouts to shareholders.
Remember that in the real world, there is no trust fund vault where Uncle Sam has safely squirreled away your lifetime payroll taxes to finance your Medicare benefits when you need them.
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If MIP dollars are no longer used to subsidize the payroll tax cut, but are instead used solely to replenish the MMI Fund shortage, surely this additional inflow will significantly eliminate the need for additional MIP cost increases for low-to-moderate income borrowers.
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We are currently spending more on Medicare than we are collecting in payroll taxes and cashing in the few IOU's left in the trust fund.
On current trends, Social Security will begin spending more than it takes in through payroll taxes in 2018, and in 2042 it will deplete its accumulated trust fund.
Continue the payroll tax cut, and you only increase the burden on our already strained trust fund balance.
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