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I think the federal government and the states should reduce the tax burden on corporations that hire the disabled. For every disabled person you hire, your tax
by Overtonwindow 11y ago
I think the federal government and the states should reduce the tax burden on corporations that hire the disabled. For every disabled person you hire, your tax bill is lowered that much more. If 15% of your workforce is physically or mentally disabled, your state tax is zero. That would incentivize corporations to hire more disabled.
- kough 11y agoAll you're arguing is for a decrease in the cost of hiring from a specific labor pool, which is exactly what the government has already done by allowing companies to hire disabled workers for below the minimum wage.
- tamana 11y agoWhy bother? Corporations can hire the abled, and government can support the disabled. If disabled are the only available workforce and a corporation needs work done, corporations can pay the disabled (high) market rates. And, you know, of they are doing useful work, maybe they aren't relevantly "disabled" to deserve a lower wage
- AlgorithmicTime 11y agoWork can be both useful and not worth minimum wage. It's easy to imagine that the job of folding boxes would be cheaper to automate at $9 per hour, but at $4 it makes sense to higher someone to do it instead.