Payroll Tax break is another sinister idea and here's why. The "payroll tax" is Medicare, Social Security, Unemployment, Disability etc. and the Democrats are now advocating the withdrawal of funds from these programs, some of which are facing bankruptcy anyway. The biggest reason is that this is a typical "Big Government" idea. Government can cancel the tax cut at any time with the stroke of a pen, and as SS and Medicare run out of money almost immediately you can bet the tax cut will last two months. This is a "temporary" scheme put forth by the people who have one idea in mind: funding the Welfare State with somebody else's money.