Taxpayers subsidize poverty wages
vendredi 20 novembre 2020 à 01:00*Taxpayers Subsidize Poverty Wages at Walmart, McDonald's, Other Large Corporations, GAO Finds.*
This would be perhaps acceptable if these corporations paid plenty of income tax (not payroll tax), enough to cover the costs of the shortfall in worker's wages plus what they ought to be paying otherwise.
But since that is not the case, we should raise the minimum wage and charge those companies more taxes.
We should stop using payroll taxes: companies' must not be able to reduce their tax bills by replacing human workers with robots or paying them less.