Isn a payroll tax unfair to small businesses?
PNHP correctly points out that the payroll tax is more costly to businesses who are not currently insuring their workers. However, it is much less THAN what they would pay for good private insurance for themselves and their workers. For most of the small businesses already providing coverage, the payroll tax will be much less expensive than what they are paying now. Ideally, the payroll tax will be replaced in the future by a tax that doesn’t charge an administrative assistant making $17,000 a year the same percentage of salary as a CEO earning $175,000 a year. Another ideal might be to do away with the system of separate payroll deduction system, notably regressive against working people in their current incarnation (and especially galling since tax cuts for the wealthy have, ever since Reagan, been paid for by “borrowing” from social security paid for regressively by theworking class). Pay for everything… military security, national security, social security, health care security a
