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Explaining Ford's proposal to a House Social Security subcommittee last week, David Mathews, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, ran into similar flak. Asked Representative Abner Mikva, an Illinois Democrat: "How do you explain to a factory worker that money withheld from his paycheck, over which he has absolutely no control, is not a tax?" Mikva says that the time has finally arrived "to blow the whistle" on the ideas that Social Security is an insurance program and that the payroll tax is somehow different from other taxes...
...from coal fumes. Co-worker Mary Siefert, 38, a divorced mother of three who was the first woman on the job last August, says she was not trying to prove anything: "I had no choice; I needed the money desperately." She is "not a liberationist whatsoever," she says. Her paycheck helps support a teenage son, Tim, 16, her daughter Linda, 21, a college student, and her daughter's child. The male miners' reaction to Miller, Siefert and a third new miner, Toni Campbell? They are resentful because, among other things, the women are exempt from shoveling and other...
Clean-up efforts began, but schools and most banks did not reopen, and most civil servants ignored Premier Karami's order to return to work. One suspicion was that the lull was only a "paycheck truce" during which the soldiers of the private militias involved would collect back salaries from local political bosses or other employers, get food for their families and rebuild their own supply of arms and ammunition...
...temporary cut now in effect. The present rates would have produced a $17 billion reduction in taxes next year. Thus, in reality, the Ford cut would amount to $11 billion, which would translate into an increase of $2 to $8 in the typical wage earner's weekly paycheck...
...taking that stand, Ford clearly was heeding his political advisers, who have been urging him to grab what credit he can for easing the withholding bite on American paychecks. If this year's tax cuts are not extended, a typical worker will find his weekly paycheck reduced by $3 to $10 after Jan. 1. In fact the tax cut will have to be increased from about $8 billion to $12 billion a year to prevent even a slight rise in withholding rates. Reason: the cuts now in effect began May 1, so for 1975 twelve months of withholding-rates...