Middle class households fear expiration of payroll tax cut

Middle class households fear expiration of payroll tax cut

December 4, 2012 4:15 PM

If the payroll tax cut is not extended at the end of the year, families making $50,000 would pay $1,035 a year more in Social Security taxes. Jim Axelrod reports on how cutting the payroll tax cut will force some middle class American families to do without some of the basics.

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