Re:Seattle Poised to Repeal Tax on Amazon and Large Employers
by kd0amg on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @08:40AM
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Payroll taxes scale down as the employee's pay rate scales down. This was a flat amount per employee-hour.
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Re:Seattle Poised to Repeal Tax on Amazon and Large Employers
by drak0n1c on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @02:41PM
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Exactly, the Seattle tax punishes low-margin employers of blue collar workers much harder than it hits employers of high-salary white collar workers. It's as if it were a carbon tax on labor designed to speed to adoption of automation.