John McCain and Mitch McConnell -- supported a payroll-tax holiday.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Republican stimulus that just might work] Reference

The minor income - and payroll-tax cuts won't turn around the economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Election Stimulus] Reference

There's some new stimulus in the form of the payroll-tax cut and the expensing proposals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonkbook: Everything you need to know about the Bush tax cut deal] Reference

Mr. Obama's "Making Work Pay" tax cut -- a payroll-tax holiday for workers -- was scaled back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Congress Strikes $789 Billion Stimulus Deal] Reference

But the shortfall widened sharply after last year's recession caused a sharp drop in payroll-tax revenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Lawmakers Approve Retirement Reforms] Reference

She proposes the eventual diversion of some payroll-tax money into a stock fund run by a government board.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics: Move Over, Gray Panthers] Reference

The White House has decided to forgo a broad-based payroll-tax holiday at this point, officials have said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama to call for $100 billion business tax credit] Reference

Other initiatives, like a broadening of the child credit and payroll-tax relief, are also under consideration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stimulus Push Gets Greener Tint] Reference

A proposal for a stricter requirement with a sizable payroll-tax penalty failed in the Massachusetts Legislature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost in Translation: The Univision Debate] Reference

Without fail, they've told me no, that they no longer support a payroll-tax holiday given the size of the deficit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mitch Daniels has a plan] Reference

The payroll-tax reduction under discussion now would cut the 6.2% Social Security tax levied on a worker ' s wages to 4.2%.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deal Struck on Tax Package] Reference

And the "lockbox" is open: Bush's budget, unlike Bill Clinton's last few, uses payroll-tax (Social Security) money for other purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Next Beltway Battle] Reference

Not all economists were happy with the package, with some criticizing the late timing of reducing the income-tax and payroll-tax burden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Germany's Stimulus Under Fire] Reference

A payroll tax holiday in 2011: Simpson and Bowles embrace the Bipartisan Policy Commission's proposal for a payroll-tax holiday in 2011.    From Wordnik.com.  [The best and the worst of the fiscal commission's final report] Reference

Mr. Kane would prefer the administration find ways to aid high-growth companies that create jobs, such as enacting a payroll-tax holiday.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Proposal Aims to Aid Smaller Companies] Reference

In 1983, he raised the gasoline tax by five cents a gallon and instituted a payroll-tax hike that helped fund Medicare and Social Security.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Would Reagan Really Do?] Reference

It looks at a 1998 payroll-tax reduction programme in Sweden (where else?) and concludes there was “no positive impact” on unemployment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreaming of job creation] Reference

After the Internal Revenue Service audited him in 2006 and discovered the payroll-tax errors, Mr. Geithner corrected them for 2003 and 2004.    From Wordnik.com.  [IMF Informed Geithner on Taxes] Reference

Deutsche Bank economists said the payroll-tax cut alone could provide a boost of 0.7 percentage point above the 3.3% growth expected next year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Package Would Give Obama Stealthy Stimulus] Reference

So, the third part of the plan would keep those funds whole by putting a new fee on carbon big enough to make up the revenues lost by the payroll-tax cuts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert J. Shapiro: Midterm Advice for Congress: Tax Carbon Instead of Jobs] Reference

My interview with Indiana governor Mitch Daniels: He'd like a payroll-tax holiday, and is a lot more positive on Obama's infrastructure plan than Bennet is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonkbook: Bennet vs. Obama; Fed sees "deceleration"; Boehner accepts two-year tax cut] Reference

One idea that could gain traction, according to some close to discussions, is replacing Mr. Obama ' s tax credit for workers with a temporary payroll-tax holiday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Payroll-Tax Holiday Gains Some Traction] Reference

A more comprehensive plan, it includes a two-tier tax table (28 and 15 percent), expanded dependent deductions and the payroll-tax proposal from the Kemp Commission.    From Wordnik.com.  [Family Feuds] Reference

A payroll-tax holiday would offer a big shot of stimulus and what about Rob Shapiro's idea to permanently end the payroll tax by replacing it with a consumption or carbon tax?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Democrats need a plan, too] Reference

There's been bipartisan support for a payroll-tax holiday, as more than 80 percent of American pay more in taxes for Social Security and Medicare than they do in income taxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Burnett: Creating the Jobs America Needs] Reference

Thus, if Mr. Obama is indeed opposed to reductions in Social Security spending growth, he is necessarily committed to large future payroll-tax or general income-tax increases.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Can't Tax Our Way Out of the Entitlement Crisis] Reference

The majority of the legislation affecting the insured is further off, as are the Medicaid expansion, the Medicare payroll-tax increase, and almost all the other big-ticket items.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Health-Care Reform Will Mean for You] Reference