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new base of $15,300 will provide additional income to the social security program without increasing the taxes of workers who earn $14,100 or less in a year, Bettendorf said. The social security tax rate, now at 5.85 percent of taxable earnings for employes and employers each, and 7.9 percent of taxable earnings for self-employed people, will remain unchanged in 1976.
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