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Re:Suspicious Discontinuities by kazagistar on Friday February 21, 2020 @10:18AM (#22383685)
It behaves the same way from the perspective of the worker. For every hour I work of a minimum wage job, I see an increase to my spending abilities of 35% of minimum wage or whatever. It's only not a tax technically, but it still cuts into your direct benefit from working exactly like a tax.
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Re:Suspicious Discontinuities by RHSeeger on Friday February 21, 2020 @11:48AM (#22384527)
> It's only not a tax technically

In the same way that any benefit program being cancelled (eg. movies for kids for free every Friday on the town green, etc) are stealing.

It's a benefit that had some or all of it taken away.

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Re:Suspicious Discontinuities by Dylan16807 on Friday February 21, 2020 @03:46PM (#22386540)
If it's part of your pay structure, and then suddenly it's not given to you, that would be stealing.
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Re:Suspicious Discontinuities by RHSeeger on Saturday February 22, 2020 @01:30PM (#22392475)
It's a benefit provided by the taxes of all. It's not part of your pay structure.
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