Let's see... $20 per week is $87 per month and $1,040 per year. Do you not think that has a significant on a family living on a $52,000 income? Don't you think that income group carefully scrutinizes how it spends $100?
Realize that, unlike the tax cuts on upper incomes, each dollar given to the lower income group goes dollar for dollar back into the economy. (that group as a marginal propensity to consume approaching 1 dollar spent per dollar taken in). Putting that money back into the system means business, jobs, profits and taxes for the place where the dollar is spent and business, jobs, profits and taxes for that businesses suppliers and employees. All in, its easy to trace at least 50% of the payroll tax cut right back to the government in the form of tax revenue.
You can trivialize the $20 per paycheck, but it simply shows how incredibly insensitive and out of touch the Cons are.... It also well illustrates that a $20 per week tax on the wealthy is far less impactful than a $20 per week tax on the less wealthy, as you think $20 per week is nothing.
Thank you for being today's poster child of Conservative ignorance.