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Ryan Mackenzie: “We have social safety nets, things like unemployment…”

Featuring: Ryan Mackenzie, Republican | U.S. Representative, Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 06:20

And so that's, I think the second beneficiary group is the business community and those individuals that are trying to do the right thing. And the third group is actually government itself. And the reason I say that is because We have social safety nets, things like unemployment compensation, which are taxes that are payroll taxes. and they're made through individual contributions from the employer and the employee as payroll taxes. But if you don't have people paying into that system, you're really weakening that social safety net for everybody else. (06:20–06:27)

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Asserts that social safety nets like unemployment compensation are funded by payroll taxes.

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