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Originally Posted by SebC
Perhaps it would be better to supplement low wages with UBI instead to spread the cost of caring for people whose market value is less than liveable instead of pushing it exclusively onto their employers.
(As an aside, 7-11s and McDonald's are franchises and Starbucks just closed a bunch of stores.)
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The EIC already does that though and no one seems to ever talk about. It basically ramps up people wages via refundable tax credits based on family size etc, so that a min wage single mom or person supporting a family get a pretty big boost from their min wage job. Ironically, the progressives criticized Nancy Pelosi for not accepting a proposal to remove the EIC to offset the $2000 checks to everyone.