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...earning $250 a month or less, would be compulsory members of a Federal annuity system. Funds for these annuities like funds for unemployment insurance will be raised by a payroll tax: 1% for the first five years, 2% for the next five and so on up to a maximum tax of 5%. The tax will be paid by employers who will deduct half of it from the pay envelope of each employe. Thus a clerk getting $20 a week will at first get $19.90 and a stamp for a 10? contribution to the annuity fund. By the time...
...annuities would start until after the system had been in operation five years. The size of the annuities would vary with the number of weekly contributions to the annuity fund. The maximum that any one over 65 would get, after contributing to the annuity fund for 45 years, would be 40% on the first $150 of his monthly wage. Thus if a man works at a wage income of $100 a month for 45 years he will have contributed $1,050 to the annuity fund and his employers an equal amount. The total sum, $2,100, even with 3% interest...
...Anyone might voluntarily contribute to the Government's fund to buy a small annuity, up to a maximum of $50 a month. This puts the Government directly into the business of selling annuities, just as life insurance companies...
Before Major Covell's idea was adopted the maximum domestic rate in Washington was 10? per k. w. h. Reduced every year since, the maximum rate is now 3.9?-lowest in any U. S. city of 100,000 population or more. Potomac Electric's return has averaged...
Most new stars have risen to "maximum brightness" with violent speed within a day or two of discovery, but Nova Herculis, first seen as a third magnitude star on December 14, grew steadily and slowly brighter for nine more days, finally reaching the first magnitude...