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   XPost: misc.taxes, talk.politics.guns   
   From: tariffying@usa.org   
      
   On 14 Apr 2025, Lou Bricano  posted some   
   news:M3kLP.272935$D_V4.109417@fx39.iad:   
      
   > Welfare programs increase the reservation wage of potential workers   
   > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_wage).   
   >   
   > Suppose a low-skilled worker has a reservation wage of $20 per hour.   
   > He won't take a job if it pays less than $20 per hour. He values his   
   > leisure time, and below that wage, he figures he'd prefer to loaf on   
   > the couch and collect some form of welfare or scrape by some way. But   
   > if a job offer is made that pays him $25 per hour, he'll take it.   
      
   Most liberals are low-skilled and lazy like that.   
      
   > Now, suppose unemployment and other welfare benefits will pay him $30   
   > per hour. Then a job that pays $25 per hour won't interest him. He'd   
   > prefer to loaf on the couch until a job offer comes along that pays   
   > him *more* than $30 per hour.   
      
   The benefits are not permanent for those considered employable.   
      
   > Welfare benefits are *not* a subsidy to employers — they are a   
   > *tax*. They force employers to pay *more* than they otherwise would   
   > have to pay to induce deadbeats off their couches and into gainful   
   > employment.   
      
   So?  All employee wages, bonuses, and commissions are 100% fully tax-   
   deductable.   
      
   What you got wrong is who pays.   
      
   You, Jon the taxpayer, are paying the benefits.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)