What's "payroll tax" isn't your payroll your income?

Payroll tax is a tax that is based on the state of a business which businesses, employers and employees pay directly from salaries where as income tax is based on earnings and profits and is taken from your income. Yes, they are legally distinct concepts. Yes, they are basically the same thing. Yes, it is stupid.

People are too stupid to understand that any money flowing out of a company gets taxed. Taxing money flowing into it is just levying double taxation.