John,

Yesterday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released new monthly unemployment numbers, and we officially have the worst labor crisis since the Great Depression.

And the director of Trump’s National Economic Council, Larry Kudlow, said the White House’s top priorities to address the crisis are a payroll tax holiday and tax incentives for tourism, travel, restaurants and American sports.¹

Larry, is this a joke?

More than 75,000 people are dead from an extremely contagious virus, and your plan is to cut Social Security’s dedicated funding and encourage people to undertake dangerous behaviors that could kill them and their loved ones?

At a time when more than 30 million people have lost their jobs, a “payroll tax holiday” is nothing more than another handout to corporations. It does nothing to help those who are hurting the most.

While Donald Trump tries to defund and destroy our Social Security system, we’re fighting for a pandemic response that puts people first! Chip in $X to protect seniors and people with disabilities from Republican attacks!

Even Republicans know this is foolish. Chuck Blahous, a Republican who served on the Social Security Board of Trustees, said:²

“The payroll tax has one job and that is to fund Social Security. If we get into the business of dialing the payroll tax up and down depending on the economic needs of the moment, then Social Security’s financing basis can’t survive.”

And a resident fellow at the right-wing American Enterprise Institute called the cut “somewhat inappropriate.”³

So why did Trump say he won’t sign another pandemic response bill if it doesn’t include a payroll tax cut?⁴ Why is he obsessed with enacting a measure that will do nothing for the 30 million newly unemployed Americans, next to nothing for workers whose hours were reduced, and barely anything for everyone else? Especially when even members of his own party don’t support it? The only thing that cutting Social Security’s dedicated funding is good for is defunding Social Security.

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Thank you,

Michael Phelan
Social Security Works