When the security forces cut the lights in one street, some enterprising residents managed somehow to bring them back on again.
And, they quickly agreed to the Social Security tax cut as part of the two-year extension of the Bush tax cuts.
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Critics say the plan guts Medicare and Medicaid and puts younger workers at risk of having their Social Security benefits cut.
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He also vowed to neither privatize Social Security nor cut the benefits.
Instead, many employers will be using the 2012 tables come January but will omit the two-percentage-point Social Security tax cut in effect this year.
Interestingly enough, opinion polls taken at the time showed that the Social Security tax cut was the only part of the package that the public did not support.
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The one-year, 2.0 percentage point Social Security tax cut was enacted a year ago as part of a package that also extended 99-week unemployment benefits for a year, and postponed the expiration of the Bush income tax cuts for two years.
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How can they get the top 1 percent of Americans a tax cut large enough to essentially fix Social Security and then turn around and say, "Oh, we have no choice but to cut Social Security benefits"?
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Back in 1978 the centre-right prime minister of the day, Raymond Barre, raised social-security contributions and cut hospital spending.
Most important is the expiration of the 2% Social Security payroll tax cut.
The range of Devens inmates also includes a cadre of low-security prisoners who cut the lawns and do other groundskeeping work.
Payments for food assistance and other income security benefits are cut, and Congress really does, after years of threats, cut payments to Medicare physicians.
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The various proposals floating around to cut Social Security are scary enough for older Americans.
On the other side of the ledger, there are three ways that your Social Security benefits are being cut.
Hackers could bring down power plants, cause remote explosions, shut down utilities, cut off security systems, hack into important infrastructure, and the list goes on.
He also charged that Bush has allowed the jobs of thousands of airport security screeners to be cut and has failed to prepare hospitals for bioterror attacks.
When the iPad 2 was released last year, a skirmish broke out outside a Beijing Apple Store after a man believed to be a scalper was escorted away by security after trying to cut in line.
It may have been reached in Japan, where Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi has cut the top corporate income tax rate from 48% to 41%, the highest individual rate from 65% to 50% and even slightly cut social security taxes.
It also cut social-security contributions, partly making up the shortfall with higher value-added tax.
Nonetheless, disability benefits should offer the government the best chance to meet its pledge to cut social-security spending.
Why, with inflation markedly lower and with taxes being cut, are security fraud and folly at an epidemic pitch?
The Social Security checks would still be cut but not income tax refunds.
But some staff have claimed a cut in border security numbers was the reason for fewer fake passports being found.
Back in 2010 Congress passed a law that cut the Social Security tax from 6.2% of income to 4.2%.
For starters, it does not mean a cut in Social Security benefits.
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If they were enforced, tighter restrictions on gun ownership, combined with better frontier security, ought to help cut Brazil's obscenely high rate of firearms deaths.
Bush will use his speech in Independence to say his budget plans protect Medicare and Social Security and that his tax cut will boost economic growth.
The only stimulus measure for a country with 24% unemployment was a cut in social-security contributions.
The deal allowed a temporary cut in the Social Security tax to expire, so withholding will rise to 6.2% from 4.2%.
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