Payroll tax effects people unequally when accounting for available funds. Wage workers are paying payroll taxes:
Low-income Americans face higher payroll tax rates than rich Americans. Americans with less than five-figure incomes pay an effective payroll tax rate of 14.1 percent, while those making seven-figure incomes or more pay just 1.9 percent
Then the working class gets a much more meaningful cash refund. Even if fully enforced, the tax system sucks and seemed designed to keep people poor.
Easily could be changed to workers making under a certain amount getting exempt from a payroll tax. That's a key way companies and the government keeps people poor.