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by chimeracoder 4913 days ago
> Wasn't the 2% tax cut on the side the employer pays? That means if you paycheck goes down because of it, your employer is pretty much a jerk.

In the short run, this would make a difference, but not in the long run - the incidence of payroll taxes has been shown to fall almost entirely (~98%) on the employees.

(For those unaware: the incidence of a tax[1] is a way of describing who really bears the burden, which is completely unrelated to who nominally pays a tax out-of-pocket).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence