Show 0 proposes rural social 41 11 security minus red tape simple stamp plan evolved to record modest beneficiary payments and avoid complicated bookkeeping duties by veto analyst and commentator revl service 1816 1616 kyc eye street N W washington D 0 there aro are specimens of wildlife in tho the united states not wildlife as represented by the recently vindicated esquire magazine I 1 but big gamo game animals like deer buffalo and mountain goats the fish and wildlife service counted them canvassing the wide open Bp blaes aes to do it prof murray H n benedict of tho the university of california has bem bec t doing some counting too in the wide pen open spaces or at least down on the farm and he be camo came up with the conclusion that in 1030 1939 more than halt half the farm owners in the country raised less than worth of products on their land consequently these low income farmers and a nd a great many other farmers in only slightly higher income brackets find it almost impossible to saye save money toward the time when they can no longer work they are arc harassed by a feeling of economic in security the kind of economic insecurity tf which president truman recently said was tending to break down family life in this country mr truman suggested that perhaps wrought wo we ought to have a DIU bill of rights for the family to aa well as aa for the individual pr professor Zene benedict dici suggest a DIU bill of or rights for the former farmer but in a pamphlet entitled A retirement ti system for farmers he does suggest that the larmer farmer bo belan i included in tho the federal social security system the armar farmer earning no more than from the sale of products product sw would be listed as a self belt employed worker making an assumed net income of lie ha would pay into the social security fund 2 per cent of his income each year and to make the yearly payments a little easier to take the farmer would use a stamp book buying social security stomps to paste in whenever ho he had bad some spare pare cash aish I 1 farmers who earn or more can follow the same procure they are given a standard deduction based on how much hey earn for ei example ample those farmers earning between and 1000 get a deduction theres therea a deduction n for the next highest group and so on they take their deduction make the simple report of net income end and that but some farmers may insist that their expenses exceed the deduction allowed them okay with mr Bifi benedict edic t for them he would provide a separate form so the farmer could list his actual expenses and deduct them form farm hands also covered all this applies to farm own em but perhaps the he farm owner jako jake duncan has hasa R helper tom tom Is a farm wage work or er and it if mr dir benedict has ills his way farm wage workers like tom would bo be treated much the lie same us as industrial workers I 1 insofar as social security Is concerned that means jake the employer would deduct ci toms I 1 per cem cent from his wages add h ats Is own payment of 1 per cent to tonis toms 1 vor per cent and transmit in it to the government at the end of catch quarter the funds imil ten a certified statement of wages paid here again mr benedict wants to save jake the employer from long nights spent at the desk pouring over social security records ile he suggests ns as one way to eliminate paper work a stamp book system tom would get a stamp book from the post office eack each time jake pays tom off jake would affix and cancel the proper stamps a painless way of recording payments pa ments mr benedict think that nine million farmers and can be ba brought in into the social security system overnight neither does he ha predict smooth sailing right from the start tt if they were brought in it will take time and a far reaching educational program the idea of Ino including luding farm era under the tha social security plan Is not act is a vew new one most of the important farm organ ulzA lit eions have oklyed okayed the idea be both tp presidential candidates en dorsch it in the last election campaign the ho social security board last month broached the subject to congressional attention once again and there Is a bill which would accomplish it tho the wagner vagner murray dingell bill this bill was sent to the house ways and means committee 0 on i may alay 24 1915 and its still there gathering dust it Is doubtful that the committee will take any action unless sonic borne pressure Is brought to bear by interested parties of course there Is opposition to the idea in some quarters some persons who oppose including farmers and other workers not now in advance the nation can af ford it argument they say that as more and more persons in occupations covered by social security reach the retirement age the amounts paid into the trust fund arent going to be sufficient fent to pay bay them off unless tho the treasury digs down and adds public funds in 1039 the lawmakers threshed this out and came up with a plan to make the he fund continuously y self self supporting they decided to make lak the contributions high enough so that the government would not have to help out mit they agreed to keep the present I 1 yer per cent from employee and I 1 per cent from employer rate until 1013 1043 after that increase aitto it to 2 per cent each then to 25 2 8 per cent then to 3 per cent from 1048 on however congress deferred defer daf cried fed the rate increase during tho the war and ever gotten around to upping tipping it unless rates aratea are increased undoubtedly the tha treasury will have to shell out in future years when the system gets into full swing and it if farmers and other presently uninsured workers ore are brought undoubtedly in the treasury will have to shell shel rout out more aid now tops billion consider confide r what the govern government men Is already handing out to support aged persons not covered by social security the costs of old age assistance and old aid to dependent children from 1933 to 1044 to the country added up to a tidy billion dollars arid costs cost will continue to go up as the average ago of the population rises all of which means the government has dispensed almost a billion dollars in charity to persons who might had they been able to ma make ice regular social security contribution during their working years have been ablerto nals to get along without such charity other opponents foresee the farmer bogged down to in an avalanche of government questionnaires financial reports lists ledgers and statistics should he ibi bf made A participating member of the social security system vs hut but under mr benedicts plan the farmers farmer lm duties ito to ills his government where soc social I 1 a I 1 cecur ity Is concerned are a minimum ile iio wont have to keep detailed farm rewords tho the reports ho does docs have to miiko make are simple ones As a matter of tact fact it lie ho uses tho the stamp plan to take caro care of ills employees social security payments lie W wont Ont llave rv a much paper work as 09 antl industrial US or professional onal employers havo have still another argument Is advanced by people who predict gloomily that if workers are assured of a regular income from social security after retirement they wont work they wont save during the years they on can work mr benedict thinks that argument Is as ancient as the tha recon strutted ted dodo in the ole smithsonian institution ution social security benefits as set up now will certainly not buy retiring oldsters oldster 3 any mink coats or cadillac coupes coapes the benefits are i very modest ones any sensible pe pen r son can sw see hell have to have some other resources es besides social security it if he wants to live at any level above the barest minimum of subsistence when he reaches retirement age hell save sava money try to accumulate property perhaps carry private business insurance too but if he cant save and its not only tho the farmers who cant social security benefits in later years may keep him from becoming a public charge |