• Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    edit-2
    9 months ago

    This can actually be an issue for poor people, not because of tax brackets but because of income-based assistance cutoffs. If $1/hr raise throws you above those cutoffs, that extra $160 could cost you $500 in food assistance, $5-$10/day for school lunch, or get you kicked out of government subsidied housing.

    Yet another form of persecution that the poor actually suffer and the rich pretend to.