Wayne Counts concluded in a 2008 paper, the overall rate of return for Social Security contributions is a mere 1.8%, and for many workers in higher income levels, the return is actually negative.
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The report measured net pay per hour, gross pay per hour, tax and social security contributions, vacation days and the number of days an employee would need to work to buy an 8-gigabyte iPod Nano.
As Mr Maloney went on to explain, what he actually opposes is a Republican suggestion that a small proportion of workers' Social Security contributions be invested in the risky stockmarket, where pay-outs cannot be guaranteed.
The top rate of income tax, including social-security contributions, will still be close to 60%.
It also cut social-security contributions, partly making up the shortfall with higher value-added tax.
It has reduced social-security contributions for low-paid workers and eliminated contributions for home helps.
The only stimulus measure for a country with 24% unemployment was a cut in social-security contributions.
CDU's tax ideas do not square with its health-care plans, which would make social-security contributions more regressive.
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In addition, employers must pay heavy social-security contributions and other costs, which add another 80% to their bill.
Back in 1978 the centre-right prime minister of the day, Raymond Barre, raised social-security contributions and cut hospital spending.
EU. But high wages, social-security contributions and income taxes still deter foreign investors.
More than 5.4m Germans are on part-time contracts that are not subject to social-security contributions, up from 3.9m in 1991.
The government claims that cuts in tax and social-security contributions have already resulted in an additional 930, 000 part-time and temporary jobs.
Despite clawing 40% of gross earnings in social-security contributions from employers and employees' pay-packets, the scheme by no means covers expenditure.
Main reasons: labour-market rigidity and high costs, not least due to social-security contributions, which have now risen to 42% of wages and salaries.
In addition, the government has imposed new social-security contributions on low-wage jobs, and tightened restrictions on the self-employed, part-time work and fixed-term contracts.
It was partly financed by a rise in social-security contributions, which made labour more expensive and indirectly led to the Agenda 2010 reforms.
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And he aims to lower social-security contributions, shared between workers and employers and often blamed by the latter as a disincentive to taking on labour.
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Builders, who pay higher social-security contributions than their competitors, are nervous.
Germans who prefer to be self-employed so that they can avoid paying salaried workers' full social-security contributions also complain that the dice are loaded against them.
As the old rules have been loosened, firms have hired more workers, often on short-term contracts or as part-timers, with less strict job protection and lower social-security contributions.
The second problem is that the government has been determined to get its own debts under control by raising taxes and social-security contributions, which the economy manifestly cannot at present afford.
Sweden has a huge public sector (in 2007 taxes and social-security contributions swallowed more than 48% of GDP), yet even the flintiest liberal has to admit that it is an exceedingly well-run, handsome place.
There, the Socialist government of Lionel Jospin has been busy imposing new costs on employers with one hand (through such policies as a shorter, 35-hour, working week) while trying to reduce them with the other for example, by its plans announced last week for further cuts in social-security contributions paid by employers who create at least 6% more jobs but also enforce the 35-hour week.
The payroll tax holiday (or the payroll tax cuts) meant that, on the employee side, payroll tax contributions for federal purposes are reduced by 2% for 2011: instead of paying in at 6.2% for Social Security taxes, contributions for 2011 are 4.2% for Social Security taxes.
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The court heard that Saxonis was responsible for forwarding to social security funds the contributions from council workers' salaries.
With the payroll tax cut, payroll tax contributions on the employee side were reduced by 2%: instead of paying in at 6.2% for Social Security taxes, contributions were 4.2%.
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At present, some of those on the dole stand to lose more than they would gain by working, thanks in large part to heavy compulsory contributions for social security and other social programmes.
In addition, higher contributions for Medicare and Social Security are expected while 401(k)s and other self-funded retirement plans continue to replace employer-funded defined benefit plans, particularly for state and local government workers.
The Japanese pension system has been used by politicians (as has the U.S. social security system) to buy votes and contributions of the old age lobby, such that benefits being received are substantially, sometimes vastly (8 or 9 times), greater than the amounts paid in.
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