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[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 46 points 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!

[-] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 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.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 9 months ago

God the number of people I’ve heard say this over the years is nuts.

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

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

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

I got it was sarcasm, but it's always good to add a /s just in case

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