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    Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 15

    Austen Allred Retweeted Benjy Sarlin

    "What can we do to help poor and marginalized people?" "Let's tax the people that hire them!"https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/996382834494353408 …

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    Benjy SarlinVerified account @BenjySarlin
    Sherrod Brown talking up an idea that could gain ground with D's: Legislation requiring companies whose workers make enough to qualify for food stamps to pay a "corprorate freeloader fee" to taxpayers
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      2. TProphet‏ @TProphet May 15
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        If employers can pay so little their employees qualify for public assistance, something is fundamentally and structurally wrong with the economy.

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      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 15
        Replying to @TProphet

        Not sure that logic 100% follows. Qualification for food stamps is only correlated with income, and a lot of factors go into it, including family situation, disabilities, etc.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. TProphet‏ @TProphet May 15
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Not 100% but there are serial abusers, such as a certain large Arkansas based retailer.

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      2. Thwiv‏ @Thwiv May 15
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Idea being here that it would probably be cheaper to just pay them more, fixing both problems.

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      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 15
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        And the assumption being that if you require companies to pay more they will continue to do at the same rates, which we've seen hundreds of times isn't true

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      4. Thwiv‏ @Thwiv May 15
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        1/ No, of course they wouldn't. But, if we continue with the theory behind this idea, it's better to have fewer people at a company being paid a reasonable living wage.

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      5. Thwiv‏ @Thwiv May 15
        Replying to @Thwiv @AustenAllred

        2/ It posits that companies are taking advantage of government programs in order to pay people less than they would ordinarily be able to survive on, and so we should force them to pay for it. We don't need more jobs, unemployment is not low. We need better paying jobs.

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      6. Thwiv‏ @Thwiv May 15
        Replying to @Thwiv @AustenAllred

        end/ Whether this idea holds water is, as we say, an exercise left to the reader. But it's not unsound.

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      2. seriously 211‏ @seriously211 May 15
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        This is just a backdoor way to a higher minimum wage

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      3. Ben Harrell 🌐 🏳️‍🌈‏ @elben May 15
        Replying to @seriously211 @AustenAllred

        Agreed. Just raise the minimum wage instead.

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      1. MA Walker‏ @antiqueseahorse May 15
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        With respect: do you have an idea/proposal for ppl who work yet still need food stamps? Where should the food stamp support $ come from? Regular taxpayers? Big corps? Get rid of food stamps & tell ppl to cope, however? The need is real, just wondering what a good solution is...

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      2. Paul Frazier‏ @pfrazier May 15
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Ok. But just expressing a draft thought I've had for awhile. Do food stamps allow companies to pay their workers less? I.E if there was no public assistance, would workers band together and demand higher wages? i.e teacher strikes? If there isn't enough labor supply wages go up.

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      3. Joseph Simko‏ @Bamfurlough May 15
        Replying to @pfrazier @AustenAllred

        They would probably end up being even more desperate than they already are.

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      1. Sar Haribhakti‏ @sarthakgh May 15
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Dem's consistent ability to conjure up stupid policy ideas amazes me. This is too much. The one Seattle announced seems counter-productive too

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