European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I modern living Friday april 28, 1978 the stars and stripes  19percentsugar 68.0 61.1 Soto two Hen it comes to consumption of sugar americans truly can be said to be Sweet people. In a report to Congress on nutrition Philipr. Lee professor of social Medicine at the University of California san Franci collated that . Citizens put away 125 pounds of sugar annually. Y Alary Neth orb charges Caa be Debat. Who de about everyone concerned wit health agrees that modern americans Are using sugar to excess a sub stance that olfers no nutrition Only particularly under fire Are those Sweet ened breakfast cereals. The committee on children s television and the Californi society of dentistry for children went so far As to sue general foods corp. Last Yea for what they Call Candy breakfasts sold As part of the firm s Post  is charged in the lawsuit that the com Pany exploits trusting children in order to sell sugar concoctions As nutritious break fast cereals and that the a billion or soothe company spends on advertising has has induced the formation of lasting poo nutrition habits and tooth decay in millions of children particularly youngsters Bromlow income  the suit is demanding that general foods change its Labelling and advertising plus pay More than a billion in penalties. As h is now. Bough there is no Wayto judge just How much sugar a prod act contains. Percentages Are no listed. All Yon know is that if sugar is listed first it is toe main ingredient bythe Wight of the food item. The journal of dentistry for children however has figured the percentages of sugar in breakfast cereals. Here Are it findings. Brand super Orange Crisp sugar smacks King Vitamin 58.5 fruit pebbles 55.1 Apple jacks 550 Cocoa pebbles 535i Jacky charms 50.4 cinnamon crunch 50.3 Pink Panther 49 2 honeycomb 488 Frostl xxx 47.4 trix 466 Cocoa Kris pies 45 9 count Cencula 4 2 frosted Hakes 410 Frankenberry 440 Kattom 4.18 Cap n crunch 43.3 Cocoa puffs 0 super sugar Crisp 40.7 Alpha bits 40.3 sugar pops 37.8frosted mini cheats 33.8 sugar sparkled com flakes 32.2bran buds 302 sugar frosted flakes 29.0super sugar chef 24.5 fortified oat flakes 22.2all bran 20.0 100% bran 18.4granola 16.6 Kellogg 40% bran flakes 16.2team 15.9 Post 40% Brank flakes 15.8life 14.5 buckwheat 136raisin bran 10.6 Rice Kris pies 10.0concentrate 9.9 total 8.1kellogg Corn flakes 7.8 grape nuts 6.6wheaties 4.7 special k 4product 19 4.1 Alpen 3.8wheat chef 2.6 cheerios 2shredded wheat 1.3 of theto ble i atom  i  id toys libel the Tom r. These&4 Bertva revision  Edmond Lebreton associated press Congress is taking another look at social Security payroll tax in creases it approved last year which Over the coming decade will amount to $227.3 billion. Revision of the tax hikes scheduled Toto in 1979, could be made part of the tax tithe House ways and Means committee beginning to put together. Here in question and answer form Areme of the major issues with which the i wankers and the 110 million social set taxpayers Are concerned Sta is k True that withholding toy pay Lor social Security will i to triple within u years u Congress me present Law stand answer it s True if you Are in a fairly beaming bracket. The most anyone is tying this year is $1,070.85. That applies nose earning $17,700 or More. Those Ming Kas pay less. By 1987. According of Leal projections the maximum tax be $3.045.90, paid by those earnings or More and the. Maximum is sex Mai to continue to Rise  earning $30,000 this year pays. On the same income in 1987 repay $2.145. But the tax on $10.000 p would increase Only $110, to $715 Homo earnings. $165. To $1,072.50 on earnings. $359.15. To $1,430. Would have been substantial in Over the next decade even if con bad not changed the Law last  Are the chances thai Congress something about the Law Reuy pretty Good in the longish the immediate Outlook is j. President Carter and some Power la members of Congress Are against w this year yet this is an election. With All the House seats and a third a Senate up for grabs a year Forg the voters. In social Security taxes Sofwith we Kef Iwon to Tang other Treasury funds it thou spec Rrona numbers. The House budget com acted yet. Zwss.1 if taxes have Given some average workers a exaggerated idea of the Cost to them. A poll by the associated press and no news found americans supporting by 56 to 38 percent Congress action last year to keep the social Security system solvent. Some supporters of the 1977 Law say most of the clamor to change it comes from articulate upper Middle class per sons who would be harder hit proportionally because the increase in the wage base for the tax bites deeper into larger incomes than the tax rate increases that affect everybody. Only is percent of workers earn More than this year s maximum wag base $17.700. Finally. Carter says that if Congress passes his income tax proposals the cuts that Levy will generally More than offset social Security tax increases for Low and moderate income earners. The higher paid contributors meanwhile will qualify for ultimate higher benefits. Q if Congress does Rou Back toe payroll tax increase where would it get the Money to keep Sodal Security oat of the red a the place to which it could go in a hurry for funding would be to the general receipts of the Treasury which Means mainly the yield from individual and Cor Saue income taxes plus Treasury Dot r0there has been High level talk of using the revenues from Ste posed Taxon crude Oil. But no one knows at this stage so Jurat and the rest of the Carter Energy package will fare in Congress. Some have also discussed finding  new source of Revenue perhaps a lorm of National sales tax. But anything of  a Long Range project no something that could be done this year. Q what s wrong with using general Rev a those who oppose it use two Maul a ones that there Are no revenues for the purpose. The government keeps running inthe red in its regular operations and having to borrow to cover the  the Treasury for social Security they say would just be enlarging one Defi Cit to cover another and the additional borrowing would feed  other argument is that it would be a bad mistake both from the Point of View of the government and of the present and future beneficiaries of social Security to break with the tradition that the system should be  few exceptions since the system started in i93s. Every expansion or in crease in benefits has been matched with an increase in the special tax. This kind of discipline some students of the system say. Is needed to keep Congress from going overboard with benefits and making the system impossibly  the Point of View of the beneficiaries financing their retirement another benefits by a special tax of which they pay half bolsters the insurance aspect of the system and avoids any taint of Chari to or welfare. Welfare programs Are financed by general revenues. Q what do the people who want to us general revenues say a principally that the income tax. The main source of general revenues ought to be used because it is a progressive Levy related to ability to pay. The payroll tax they say is regressive because it applies from the Fust Dollar earned without exemptions or deductions for family Obliga Tion or heavy expenses such As medical costs and because it taxes the whole earn Ings of most workers but Only part of the pay of those in the highest brackets they also Point out that nearly All other countries with similar systems pay for them in part from general revenues. The half of the tax us. Employers have to pay. They say tends to raise the Price of u goods and makes them less competitive in International markets