Nebraskans face a possible increase in payroll taxes beginning with the new year if Congress can't extend payroll tax reductions once they expire on Dec. 31, U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., said on ...

It’s natural for decision-makers grappling with a new crisis to dust off ideas tried in the last one, whether they were good ideas or bad. Here’s a bad idea, unearthed by President Trump from a decade ...

President Donald Trump’s proposed payroll tax cut is a threat to Social Security no matter how he casts it. During a news conference Wednesday, he insisted he could eliminate the tax if he were ...

While U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., hasn't said whether he would support a bill passed by the House that would extend the payroll tax cut, he is not a fan of the myriad attachments added to the bill.

Lawmakers averted the fiscal cliff by raising income taxes on the wealthy, but in this deal everyone's taking a hit. That's because Social Security payroll taxes are going up for all American workers.