Albuquerque program hires panhandlers to work in maintenance jobs

Re:Albuquerque program hires panhandlers to work in maintena... by refurb on Saturday August 13, 2016 @09:49PM (#12283951)

How would you ensure that the company is actually hiring homeless employees? What exactly is homelessness? Where is the line? Who does background checks? What are the penalties for lying about being homeless to get the tax credit?

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Re:Albuquerque program hires panhandlers to work in maintena... by MichaelBurge on Saturday August 13, 2016 @10:33PM (#12284053)

There's already precedent in federal law, so I assume the states can just copy that.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/11302

There's also precedent in prioritizing auditing resources on offenders with large payoff, having the computer watch for suspicious tax forms, pricing penalties to include the people who get away with it, and whatever else they do to enforce the existing 2600 pages of federal tax law plus whatever state tax law.

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