Guest Post: If Employment Is So Great, Why Are Withholding Taxes Declining?
by Charles Hugh-Smith
ZeroHedge.com
09/09/2013
It’s difficult to have a meaningful national debate about economic policy when “headline numbers” are juiced to make things appear rosier than reality. Since unemployment statistics are either suspect or blatantly bogus, we must look for other less manipulated statistics for some modicum of truth. Key statistics of employment, income and production are vital propaganda tools for the status quo, and the temptation to adjust them to manage perceptions is apparently irresistible. The con being played here is the assumption that more jobs means more wages which means things are getting better and better in every way, every day. If payroll withholding taxes are declining, and wages/salaries are flatlined, things are not getting better and better in terms of earned income flowing into household bank accounts, purses and wallets.
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