Income taxes would need to be cut by an amount that workers would otherwise have paid into the fund as payroll taxes, without actually taking money from the fund itself. Such logistical complications could be difficult to work out and could lead to delays in enactment or implementation. Temporary cuts in sales taxes.
A fast-acting, short-term measure with a powerful spending impact is a temporary cut in sales taxes. Whereas temporary income-tax cuts can be viewed as making a one-shot change in household disposable income, temporary sales-tax cuts bring about a temporary reduction in the prices of goods that consumers buy. The switch from a temporary income change to a temporary price change makes all the difference.