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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand Page 4 The Utah Independent June 5, 1975 ATTN: READER'S DIGEST E.R.A. WILL HURT MEN Continued from page taxes would have to come out of the earnings of the husband and it might be charged that he would be paying taxes twice once on his own earnings and once on the assumed earnings of his wife as a homemaker. But this would be fair and equitable. For if the husband had to hire someone to perform his wife's household duties and if he paid the employe cash wages of as little as $50 in a three-mont- h period, he would be required under today's law to pay Social Security taxes on the employe's earnings. Why shouldn't he do the same for a wife who performs additional duties above and beyond those ordinarily expected of hired employes? If some change along these lines is not enacted sooner, the Rights Equal Amendment (E.R.A.). when finally passed, will require it. UNA NS WERED QUESTIONS Ms. Porter does not make clear whether these new Social Security taxes on the wife would be paid at the 8 percent rate of persons, or at the rate of 5.8 percent for the wife's assumed earnings" to be matched by another 5.8 percent from the husband as employer?. Nor does she make clear what will be the self-employ- ed . assumed salary of the homemaker on which Social Security taxes will be paid. Estimates of the financial worth of a homemaker start at $1 2,000 per year, and go up from there. Since there are no deductions in Social Security taxes, a charge of 8 percent on S 2.000 w ould require husbands to pay $960 annually in additional Social Security taxes. The additional tax could be higher, depending on which rate is charged 1 and what homemaker earnings is assumed the to be worth. There will, of course, be no increase whatsoever in benefits, since wives already draw Social Security benefits based on their husband's earnings. DESTROYING THE HOME The rationale of this radical proposal is that it is supposed to give new dignity to the role of homemaker. Which would you the have rather alleged dignity that comes from paying an additional $960 or more in Federal Taxes, or the satisfaction that comes from spending your own money for goods or gifts of your own choosing? More than half of U.S. taxpayers are already paying more Social Security taxes than they pay income taxes. E.R.A. will thus double the Federal tax load of many male married taxpayers. result of such The long-rang- e a mischievous and costly plan will be, of course, to drive most wives and mothers out of the home. In many families, the wife will be economically compelled to take a job in order to help pay the additional $960 in taxes. This additional Social Security tax is one of the many ways that the Equal Rights Amendment discriminates against 1 those who believe that it is a social good to enable the wife and mother to be a fulltime homemaker, especially when her children are young. additional This Social Security tax and its inevitable effects show how prophetic was the Drake University study, which concluded in June. 1973 that E.R.A. will cause legislatures and courts to adopt a wildly permissive approach which will degrade the homemaker role and support economic development requiring women to seek careers. A major reason why the U.S. is a good country to live in is that our HEAD OF FAMILY Mr. Peter C. Canning Asst. Managing Editor TOM ANDERSON Readers Digest Plcasantville. New York Continued irom page 2 Dear Mr. Canning: In response to your form letter stating that if the Digest ever finds an article arguing soundly and convincingly against gun controls 1 you would be happy to print it. wish to make a statement, not necessarily for publication. First, my you please cancel Reader's to Digest. subscription Take my name off your mailing list for sweepstakes and advertising. I have been a subscriber to Reader's Digest for close to 30 years, and have bought many of your records for my stereo. As a subscriber. I deplore the fact that you and your staff have perused so many magazines and newspapers and have NOT found a simple truth that stands out like light in a dark room to those of us who are informed on this subject. One must use his own reasoning power to know that the whole movement to confiscate the guns' of the American people is nothing more nor less than an attack on. the will laws recognize the family as the basic unit of society. We have a great fabric of Federal and State laws designed to keep the family together and to assure the child a home in which to grow up. The rights' of husbands and wives spelled out in these laws are , not for the purpose of giving one sex a preference over the other, but are designed to keep the family together. The husband has rights, too. RIGHTS of He has the right to establish the Americans under the Second domicile, or the location of the Amendment to our inspired family home. This is a necessary constitution, which states: ...The and proper right of the husband, of the people to own and bear since he has the obligation to , right BE NOT arms shall provide a home for his wife and INFRINGED. family. There is more crime in our E.R.A. will wipe out all the country today than ever before in state laws that assure the husband the history' of our people. The huge the right to establish the domicile. are swarming with E.R.A. will not permit any law to metropolises criminals. People are not safe on give any right to one sex that it does the streets of the cities, nor safe in not accord equally to the other. with dead-bo- lt The laws that give the their homes, even husband the right to establish the locks. Windows have been broken, domicile are principal targets of the criminals entering, to torture and womens lib movement and arc rob the occupants. Honestly, are you of the often cited in debate as laws they opinion that removing guns from want to w ipe off our statute books. the ownership of the law abiding citizens will do away with crime? MATTER OF VALUES Are you aware that criminals will Of course, one's attitude toward NEVER register their guns? They these laws is based directly on ones exist to BREAK the laws, not assumptions and scale of values. If abide by them. Are you aware that you think that the family is a social some criminals use acid, knives, value to be cherished and ropes, even nylon stockings to encouraged, then you will support torture their victims? If your the existing laws. If a woman does answer is yes" to these questions, not want to live in her husband's then why do you propose to do domicile, then she should not get Americans' away with married. their right to protect E.R.A. will also cost a weapons themselves and their families? husband the right to have his Do you know that the children carry his last name. Most senators and congressmen who states do not have laws specifically voted to bring about the forced enunciating this right, but it is for integration", to have enforced by other types of legal busing the federal government control restrictions, such as birth private property through "land use certificates, driver's licenses, and are the same ones other official documents and planning advocating gun control? Do you regulations. think for one minute our people Any requirement that a child will accept these controls? carry his or her fathers name NEVER! would be unconstitutional under I suggest that you read some E.R.A. because, by definition, it of the media printed' by patriots would discriminate against the who love their country and mother on account of her sex. freedoms too much to allow people If a constitutional amendment in our government bureaucracies required us to erase the control all our freedoms. It is only lines of paternity and logical to be aware that criminals legitimacy, the resulting confusion will never register nor give up their will strike a severe blow at the guns. If Americans are disarmed family, unit. The new legitimacy will no longer be safe in their that this would accord to they homes, on the streets, or anywhere unmarried parents, and to in our country. homosexuals and lesbians who law-abidi- law-abidi- time-honor- ng ed adopt children, would come at the expense of our respect for the institution of the family. There is nothing so powerful as truth and often nothing so strange. -- Daniel Webster ng Sincerely yours. Mrs. Erma J. Christensen Salt Uke City, Utah 84105 P.S. In case you are open-mindabout reading our material. I would be more than happy to send you some. ed others, honest with People who be yourself. continually complain that understand them dont probably dont understand people themselves. Nobody can cheat you as badly as you cheat yourself. Nobody can defeat you as badly as you defeat yourself. than your good qualities are the use you make of them. Happiness is More important service above self. When a young minister asked his Bishop, What shall I the Bishop preach about?, answered: Preach about God and preach about 20 minutes. Happiness is knowing how to spend your time. At your age its hard for you to appreciate the tyranny of time theres so little time for each us. of Seneca observed are always complaining that our days are few, and then acting as though there would be no end to them. Jesus had only 33 years on earth. Nathan Hale had 22. Joan of Arc had only 19. Its not how much time you have; its what you do with it. Happiness is doing nothing you have to hide. Happiness is a clear conscience. Sin is not sin is real. What is morality? Its what the Bible says it is. Not what some left wing, overeducated modernist professor or a claim. preacher may A nice girl is still one who whispers sweet nothing-doing- s into her date's ear. Dont ever let anybody sell you the lie that chastity is out of date. Your children will want their mother to be as pure as you want your mother to be. Happiness is having a future, not a past. All that is legal or is not moral. acceptable Only the moral deserve to be free. Freedom and morality are indivisible. centuries ago: We d; Happiness Education is is knowing. not merely school. Your education is the continuous development of mind, heart and character. Legal Plunder But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. -- Frederic Bastiat The Law 1850 Character is like an icebeig; the part which counts for most is below the surface. When you cash in your chips for this life, the only thing of any value which you can take with you is your character. Character is a victory, not a gift. Character knows no race, creed, color or circumstance. If you lack it, its nobodys fault but your own. Happiness is character. Happiness is freedom. What is freedom? It is freedom to choose. It is the right of every person to own and control his own property, his own mind, and his own labor as long as he is not infringing on the same rights of others. There is only one great and that is God, not giver government. Governments dont give freedom; they take freedom. People have to wrest freedom from governments. Then, after the people secure freedom, they have to work constantly to keep it. You cant have freedom and security. Happiness lies not in the state but in the state of - - mind. Government can give you nothing which it does not first take from somebody else. If you want your government to be your servant instead of master, must understand it, participate in it, distrust it and control it. The bigger it is the littler you are. your you is Happiness self-sufficien- being t. Throughout our lives one of our greatest needs is to feel wanted and appreciated. No less pitiful than an unwanted child are the unwanted old people relegated to rest homes where they get everything their hearts desire except the one thing they most want: love. Love is the greatest thing there is. Love, honor and obey your God and your parents. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Happiness is love. -- The American Way Features For Whom The Bells Toll HOWARD KERSHNER Continued from page 2 through South America, Africa, the Iberian Peninsula and the Middle East as well. With the takeover of Portugal, the communists will control the Mediterranean Sea, making it almost impossible for our country to continue helping Israel. It will further isolate the Arabs and . encourage their increasing dependence upon the U.S.S.R. Our weakness and foolish trust in Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with papei money. -- Daniel Webster the Communists is rapidly isolating us from our friends. How long can we stand alone, especially since we continue to tolerate and associate with a vast and increasing number of communist sympathizers in our own country? |
