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There are only two kinds of people in northwestern Pennsylvania's Lawrence County-the "English" and the "Dutch." The first category includes nearly everybody-Wasps, Italians, Jews, Irish, blacks. The second category covers only the Amish. To say that the Amish are different is merely to state the obvious. They are followers of a sect that originated in Switzerland back in the 17th century and, in search of religious freedom, fled to England and Holland in the 18th century and moved to America in the 19th. In this day of home computers and space travel, the Amish eschew zippers...
...Amish in Lawrence County. He differs from his neighbors for reasons other than the fact that he is not a Byler or a Swatzentrooper or a Hofstader or the bearer of some other traditionally Amish name. Lee is different because he has done something that the Amish rarely do. He has ended up in court. His offense: refusing to pay Social Security taxes for 30 Amish men who worked for him over an eight-year period as carpenters, building houses. The Internal Revenue Service claimed that he owed the Government $27,000. Lee challenged the IRS ruling in federal district...
...refusal to pay Social Security taxes did not stem from any disrespect for the law. He personally has no quarrel with the Social Security system, and believes it is fine-for those who need it. But it is a tenet of their religious belief that the Amish people should take care of their own. They do not collect unemployment or welfare benefits. They do not buy insurance of any kind. By an act of Congress in 1965, self-employed Amish men are exempt from paying Social Security taxes on religious grounds. But the act does not cover Amish...
Faced with the loss of his farm, Lee might have bowed to federal force majeure at this point. Instead, aided by two non-Amish friends, he is quietly carrying on his fight. Francis X. Caiazza, 46, a local lawyer who had represented Lee before the Supreme Court, was elected a judge the day after arguing the case and is now prevented by law from providing more than moral support. "Amish do not break laws; they are not seen in the courts," Caiazza says. "The Amish care about reason, law and order, and they are a God-fearing people. This wasn...
...even the prayers of all those in Amish country could stop the downpour from continuing all day; putts that normally would hang close to the cup instead slipped past it onto the slick greens by three and four feet. Low score for the day on the par 70 course...