int Social security )ills compared nt Y As- THE BATTALION Page 5 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1977 Jston will J| iiversity United Press International Pageant, WASHINGTON—Congress will 5s ic. a fundamental decision soon ffepresen- n how to pay for Social Security ^ Cotton hether to continue taxing em- wins loyers and employees equally or to icrease the tax share carried by ’W junior mployers. was clj). lliis will be a main issue when nearly 2J louse and Senate negotiators meet nt-faculty [the near future to reconcile differ- igSocial Scurity bills passed earlier lis year uid i tti call for hefty increases o e »ve the payroll tax boosts already eS1 en heduled in an effort to put the the Res enS ' on P ro 8 ram on a financially ' iund basis into the next century. are The House bill follows a tradition, when Social Security was foe She unc h e d in 1935, of taxing em- )ior fro Q y ers an( ^ employees equally. The mate would raise taxes for em- j oyers much more rapidly than for lieir workers. At present, an employer and em oyee each pay the same amount of s on a workers’ earnings up to 16,500, The House bill would gradually ise this “base” equally for em- oyersand employes to $42,600 in 187. The Senate bill would raise the the first ft ise on which the employer’s tax is iculated to $50,000 in 1979 and lantationi '5.000 in 1985. But the Senate ould raise the base for the em- thisTy oyee’s tax to only to $33,300 in d beoDll 185and $33,900 in 1987. icago After that the employe base would )ffs aften ewith inflation until it caught up )ta, meell ith the employer base shortly tiac, Mii ter the start of the next cen- betweeni ry. From then on, employers and and the! takers would once again pay be reawftaal taxes. verfront Each bill also raises the percent- itors arei e tax rate — the Senate slightly e Thanfsp ore than the House, etroit. Hi Here are some examples of what 11 be out ese changes would mean in actual avagana res: is more* - An average worker — who day earns $10,000 — now pays ice famili 185 a year in Social Security tax. expected ssuming this worker’s pay rose 2 mi ith inflation to $18,619 in 1987, lymoreh e House and Senate bills each he 1.78i odd raise his tax in that year to airmen i ,322. lies. (It would go to $1,201 any- ly under present law.) —The maximum tax an employe || arning more than the base) can Ire lied on to pay now is $965 a year. Margin n ^ er Senate bill, the aximum would reach $2,407 in elations U n der the House bill it would held at (i ‘ $3,024. nether ~ F or an employer, the Senate tuld raise the maximum tax to mra 1,325 in 1987. Under the House rorts of ^ would fi 56 1° $3,024, the same e oersuai max i m um for employees, e D 0: $ u PP orl:ers °f the Senate version rn bami 1’ ra > ses the money necessary to lance Social Security without put- vill strife 35 muc l 1 burden on middle and incog gher-income workers. They also argue that business can uld crip' k )r( l the higher Social Security tax ishisd jeause it is allowed to write much „ome 1 *1 against income taxes — in " _ jj 'e case of large corporations, ■ collapii !ar ^ ^aff- Individuals do not have Inismanc lc ^ a wr ite-off. Senate sponsors Iso point to the fact that Social Se- d Ameii; ^ benefits are greared to em- izing al °Y ees ’ earnings during their work- nst Ugai ^ ves U P t° the amount of the liate a?ii n f ivingtk lller eiore, increasing the em- f no d« ^°Y e base automatically leads to i his co! Icrease( l benefit costs in the future: , e ^ m j n ; ut raising the base for employers in Wasffl 0es n °t add to future benefits. -essional ^lie Carter administration sup- orted the Senate plan. It originally >t publid ro P os ed no base ceiling at all in i Dadad ^culating the employer’s tax. .United! Critics of the Senate version de- ainst A« 0unce ‘t as a “soak the employers jble for! c heme’’ and an attempt to find “an 000 pei’l answer” for financing Social ^971 'ecurity without arousing the anger at of Sac fvoter s- Iridgepo I Naho® ,n stop 1 it them hellgaii^ . piail is 80% menttof sary.tohi A-idinc anyway United Press International FilAjVAfFOjRT, Maine — Charlie hfchell is learning the hard way °ii can expect your mail through I V sleet, snow and hail but not if ie mailman has to cross the street. The Postal Service stopped de aries to Mitchell’s rural Frankfort ome two weeks ago, saying his big tal mailbox is on the wrong side the road. A mailman now passes the box ice a day without stopping, and itchell has to drive several miles the Post Office to pick up his bail. It’s not bad, though,” he said. After all, the mail’s 80 percent bills forV nyway '” ^ About a month ago, the Postal aSDO Mitchell and 55 other S, jUl* eople to move their mail boxes e Freh cross the road. All but two com- re . u, lied ' ' Mitchell remained adamant. He janlT" aid he will pick up his mail at the 94. (' ost Office, even though that means e will only receive mail once or ■rice a week instead of daily. rown tch. •ills. iNCS They say it not only breaks tradi tion but will put an “intolerable” burden on business, much of which will be passed on to consumers, thereby increasing inflation. And they contend the increased tax will make employers more reluc tant to hire workers. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates the Senate bill would cost the nation 400,000 jobs by 1980. USD A says just enough turkeys will he available United Press International WASHINGTON—There will be less turkey and cranberries this Thanksgiving than last year, the Agriculture Department says. Supplies of turkey and cran berries in coming weeks are classed as merely “adequate.” But, the monthly Food Market ing Alert report said, consumers will find “plentiful supplies of beef, pork and chicken for holi day meals. The report covers only poten tial supplies for the month of De cember. It does not predict prices. The term “plentiful,” officials explained, means supplies are more than enough to fill normal commercial needs. An “adequate” supply is defined as just enough to meet normal needs. Marketing of newly slaughtered turkeys will be up 7 percent from last year, the report said, but storage stocks at the beginning of December are down sharply from a year earlier and total supplies are expected to be 10 to 12 percent below a year ago. TIP TOP RECORDS ^ AND TAPES 1000 S. 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