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Note trust employer-funded health insurance started not as a tax dodge but as a wage-cap dodge during World War II.
by votepaunchy 7y ago
Note trust employer-funded health insurance started not as a tax dodge but as a wage-cap dodge during World War II.
- AnthonyMouse 7y agoInteresting. I wonder if that's why it was never purged when they did everything else. There used to be a long list of benefits companies would provide, like company cars, that all went poof right after they started getting counted as taxable income.
- keenmaster 7y ago>"Interesting. I wonder if that's why it was never purged when they did everything else." A combination of the endowment effect and inertia/status quo bias. When a Big Medicine lobbyist shows long government wait lines, that can be as effective, and as insidiously misleading, as a picture of immigrants waiting to gain admission to the country.