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Those increases will severely reduce consumer purchasing power, especially for low-and middle-income workers, who often pay more in Social Security than in income taxes. But even that is not all. In theory, employers pay Social Security taxes equal to those levied on their workers. In practice, the public pays the employers' share too, because companies raise prices to pass along the boost. This year's increase may add half a point to the U.S. inflation rate; the bigger rise in 1981 will push prices up much more. Some bosses may also choose to hire fewer workers...
Rheinbraun has apparently been more than equal to the task. As of the end of 1977, it had mined 67 sq. mi., resurfaced two-thirds of this terrain, created 45 lakes and ponds from the excess water, planted 13,500 acres of new forests, reclaimed some 12,000 acres for farming and resettled 20,000 people. The company has also been profitably exporting its know-how to other countries, including...
...years. When it did, with the Dred Scott decision of 1857, which struck down the Missouri Compromise and declared slaves to be property with no rights as citizens, it helped start the Civil War. During Reconstruction, the Constitution was amended to ensure that blacks were treated equally: no state, said the majestically vague 14th Amendment, shall deprive persons of "equal protection" or "due process" under...
...coming of the Warren Court, the roles were reversed. It was legislatures that were resisting reform, and the court that was pushing social change. The landmark of that era was Brown vs. Board of Education (1954), which established that separate was not equal in public schools. The 14th acquired new meaning; judges became guardians of the poor and forgotten. The criminally accused were guaranteed the right to free counsel when indigent, the right to a jury in a felony case, and, with Miranda (1966), the right to be told of their rights before confessing. Free-speech guarantees were widely extended...
...Rather, it is what scholars call "selectively activist," which some say means that its activism depends on whether or not it likes the result. One of its most activist decisions remains Roe vs. Wade (1973), which found in the Constitution an implicit right for women to have abortions. Although equal protection has of late been invoked less in the cause of the poor and the black, it has been extended to just about everyone else, including aliens, bastards and even 18-to-21-year-old males who were barred from drinking 3.2 beer in Oklahoma while women were...