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Originally Posted by J____
I'm no politician but wouldnt it make more sense to cancel income tax for nurses and doctors rather than increase their wages? Whats tthe point of increasing wage when the gov takes more of it back?
This would also make the industry much more attractive to new doctors and nurses. 10 years in school seems way more attractive then when giving 50% of your pay back to the government.
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lol, you can't do that, for a few reasons.
1. People are assholes and will abuse the shit out of that. Look at farms and their mega mansions while they raise a small bed of peanuts and claim farmer status.
2. You set precedence - 30 years later, there's a huge teacher shortage. Let's cancel their income tax too! As soon as you make an exception for one, you open the floodgates and there's no returning from that.
3. Income tax is universal. Even before credits it's one of the only forms of tax that's both universal and unilateral. To fuck with that is literally unwinding one of the key elements to any functioning society.