The rate for 1987 is 14.3 percent on the first $43,800 of wages.
The tax is paid on the first $51,300 of wages.
It was not and never had been a question of wages.
What sort of wages did you agree to pay him?
If a black woman did the same thing, she would lose 19% of her wages.
Workers would get a tax credit on part of their wages.
But given the low level of wages for so many in America, we are a long way from any such concerns.
But in the last four years, only 85 percent of wages have been covered.
This choice is not there if women have to pay up to a third of their wage.
Paying for day care would use up all or most of a mother's wages.