FICA Tax Guide (2018): Payroll Tax Rates & Definition - SmartAsset
FICA taxes are payroll taxes. In most cases, you can’t get around them. And although they take a chunk out of your earnings, they ensure that the Medicare and Social Security programs have enough funding.
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Bottom line: McConnell, Ryan, Trump, the GOP have ensured that Social Security & Medicare in America will become useless for the people that will need it the most.
Mitch McConnell is attempting to make Americans believe that Social Security & Medicare are the reasons for the EXPLODING DEFICITS.

SS & Medicare are not the reasons for the exploding CURRENT 6 YEAR HIGH DEFICIT, it is the GOP tax cuts passed by the GOP that benefit the richest 0.01% of individuals & the corporations.
These tax cuts do NOT expire.
The small, bread crumb tax cuts offered by the GOP for 99% of Americans
will expire, thus creating even larger deficits.
NOT ONLY will the bottom 99.9% end up paying MORE FICA tax to make up for the revenue shortfall, due to the exponentially increasing deficits under the GOP rule, YOU WILL ALSO be getting screwed out of SS & Medicare benefits, once the GOP drains every red cent out of these programs, and bankrupts them, just as Trump has done with multiple businesses.
YOU will be paying more into FICA tax & that will eat up MORE than any tax cut you would receive from the GOP tax cuts offered you.
Congratulations Trump voters; you have screwed not only the poorest Americans out of future SS & Medicare benefits but you have also screwed the working poor, the working class, the middle class, ALL, out of future benefits, ALL for the enrichment of the top 0.01% of the population of this nation that already happen to be financially 'set.'
Now Republicans, go look your children in the face and tell your progeny how their futures look.