• BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    It’s almost as if leaving things to social contracts vs regulating them is bad for the layperson… 🤔

    Nah fuck it. The market will regulate itself! Tax is theft and I don’t want that raise or I’ll get in a higher tax bracket and make less!

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      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.

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      9 months ago

      And then the companies hit the “trust thermocline”, customers leave them in droves and companies wonder how this could’ve happened.