There are cities that have trouble finding workers at the lower wage end of the spectrum because the cost of living for those people is just too high. A good e

There are cities that have trouble finding workers at the lower wage end of the spectrum because the cost of living for those people is just too high. A good example is Santa Barbara California. The poor are taxed enough already. If you think employers are somehow going to cover this cost, see how anxious they would be to pay for it directly. Perhaps customers and employees should be treated as a form of pollution, just another toxic resource used by business. Wouldn't that justify business having to pay?? If given only enough wealth to survive, aren't we saying that employees have no function except to work and consume? How far do we have to tax people before it becomes institutionalized slavery? Cars have been a part of the American dream for a long time. Unless/until our cities are made where everyone can easily function without them, pricing some people out of them equates to a serious impairment and loss of freedom. Taxing things that impact society isn't always the answer. Try taxing children and see how far that goes. The wages of city employees keep going up more than that of the poor in the communities they "serve". What do some cities do to fuel that? Bring in more people, more box stores, tax it all. Perhaps there is a fundamental conflict of interest in the way some city/county/state/national taxes and spending are handled?