The best thing I heard about dealing with poverty, is to half the maximum allowed work week. If you made full time 20h a week for a lot more jobs, forcing emplo

The best thing I heard about dealing with poverty, is to half the maximum allowed work week. If you made full time 20h a week for a lot more jobs, forcing employers to pay double or triple for extra, then you'd inevitably force people to share jobs. Employers would need to employ twice as many employees, but it would not cost them more. It's an easier sell then higher tax, since people get to have more free time. It also adapts better, since all the offer and demand and market laws would apply. No unjust or artificial taking more from some but not others.