Larren Buffett is concerned after receiving her weekly paycheck. She believes that her deductions for Social Security, Medicare, and Federal Income Tax withholding (FIT) may be incorrect. Larren is paid a salary of $4,100 weekly. She is married, claims 3 deductions, and prior to this payroll check, has total earnings of $128,245. What are the correct deductions for Social Security, Medicare, and FIT? Assume a rate of 6.2% on $128,400 for Social Security and 1.45% for Medicare

3. saving two consumers, larry and jeff, have utility functions defined over the two periods of their lives: middle age (period zero) and retirement (period 1). they have the same income in period 0 of m dollars and they will not earn income in period 1. the interest rate they face is r. larry’s and jeff’s utility functions are as follow. = 0.5 + 0.5 and = 0.5 + 0.5 for each person is between zero and one and represents each consumer’s temporal discount econ 340: intermediate microeconomics. ben van kammen: purdue university. rate. a. write the budget constraint that applies to both jeff and larry in terms of consumption in each period and ), interest rate, and m. b. what is larry’s and what is jeff’s marginal rate of intertemporal substitution? c. what is the slope of the budget constraint? d. write each consumer’s condition for lifetime utility maximization. e. re-arrange the conditions from part (d) to solve for the ratio, . f. if > which consumer will save more of his middle age income? g. if > 1 1+ , in which period will larry consume more: = 0 or = 1?