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doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
Most people only pay half of that and their employer pays the other half. Self employed people pay all of that, that’s me. I don’t have any separate retirement accounts or health insurance benefits either, but none of that is factored into my taxes.
lunatic_lobster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
While this is certainly technically true most modern economists believe that companies compensate for this by offering lower wages, so it’s kinds 6 of 1, half dozen of the other.
Maybe put this way, if I didn’t work at my company they wouldn’t pay either half of the social security and medicare. So its mostly me who’s bringing that money to the government since I’m the catalyst.