Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 2 · column 3 of 7 · from the scan, no model involved
A Little More Red Tape—
A group of women in Marshall, Texas, have refused to collect the “baby-sitter’s ’’tax, as they called it, the social security tax which they are told to (withhold from wages paid to their* helpers. The women seemed to be encouraged Vivien Kellems’ success in Connecticut, and they explain that they refuse to pay because the tax is unconstitutional and therefore illegal, because it forces their helpers to pay for something they do. not want, and are not likely to get, and because it forces the employers into involuntary servitude by making them act as bookkeepers and collectors for the government without just compensation.
People have done some talking, and a little private'growling about the new social security withholding on household help. “Now we are to tax baby-sitters, housemaids, wash women, girls who iron, the lawn-cutters and others Who help the busy housewife keep her household in order. You are expected to make regular reports on the earnings of your helpers under specified conditions, and it it up to you to find out what those conditions are. Then you must hold back part of their wages as a “withholding tax,’ add an equal amount to it, and pay it over to Mr. Snyder to pay back to the baby-sitter, et al, in their old age,” recites* one commentator.
Figures are probably available, but it isn’t easy to locate themoffhand, as to exactly how many dollars it will cost to collect, handle, and pay each dollar of benefits, but there’s a slight chance that it will be more than the benefits to be received by that baby-sitter, or wash woman. That
69.5%