If you push the wage ceiling up so far, others can't touch it.

The lifting of the wage ceiling on Medicare taxes would come next year.

For longtime Caterpillar workers in the upper tier, the wage ceiling is often $20 or more an hour.

Taxpayers, by not having to make contributions above this wage ceiling, now pay an ever-decreasing effective percentage rate.

A maximum wage, also often called a wage ceiling, is a legal limit on how much income an individual can earn.

Wage ceilings needed to be introduced and the heavily indebted state pension scheme overhauled.

During World War II, trade unions and employers circumvented Federal wage ceilings by offering medical fringe benefits.

One plan being considered would abolish the wage ceilings altogether and use the revenue from the additional taxes to lower the Social Security tax rate by about three-fourths of a percentage point.

In the end, the wage ceiling was lifted and thousands more children enrolled, and Mr. Pataki later appeared in television advertisements, surrounded by children, boasting about the program.

Mr. Tarasov previously had frequent clashes with the authorities over tax rates and Government-imposed wage ceilings, as well as general public resistance to the idea that making money is not a crime.

Asked if he would consider raising the levels of wages subject to the Social Security payroll tax - currently $90,000 - or eliminating the wage ceiling, Mr. Bush appeared to rule out such a change.

However, under Rivadavia's rule, the salaries of common laborers were subjected to government wage ceilings, and the gauchos ("cattle-wrangling horsemen of the pampas") were either imprisoned or forced to work without pay.

The Moynihan plan, which would not have raised the wage ceiling to compensate for the reduced tax rate, was opposed by leaders of both parties in the Senate, mainly on the ground that it would have cost the Government as much as $50 billion in lost revenue.

In the same season, the game's maximum wage ceiling was abolished, inspiring Bury directors to write in their club's programme notes for the game against Brentford in February 1961: "Just what the agreement will mean to soccer no one can yet say, but it is certain to have repercussions never anticipated."