• Philippe23@lemmy.ca
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    19 days ago

    A negative income that is better than that. It says, if you’re working, but only making $12k, the state will give you money so you now have $20k. (Not real numbers.)

    The idea is that it incentivizes participation in the work force, with hopes that the extra money helps you get stable and move up the payscale where you may stop needing the external support.

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      19 days ago

      How does that incentivizes workforce participation? You’re giving them money to not work, I think graduated taxes should just not have the NIT portion.