Excerpt from Proposals to Simplify and Streamline the Payment of Employment Taxes for Domestic Workers: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Social Security and Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representative, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, March 4, 1993 Our hearing today is basically on proposals for the payment of Social Security taxes. In 1950, that threshold was set at $50, and we suddenly wake up and find in 1993 it is still $50. On the other hand, the eligibility to be credited for a quarter was $50 in 1950 and today it is $590. By some paradox, the Government managed to keep up with the threshold of eligibility for Social Security bene fits, but did not adjust the threshold for paying Social Security taxes for domestic workers. A thousand years ago, when I served in the Indiana Legislature, we took up the subject 1 year of cleaning up the Indiana laws, those that were outdated. For example, there was a civil rights law in Indiana passed during the Civil War time dealing with public accommodations. If anybody violated it, the slap was the draconian fine of $3. We had to update that. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.