• EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I work blue collar, and lots of us are hopeful he will do the tax free overtime. I think he was just saying that, and I didn’t vote for him, but that would be game changer.

    • .Donuts@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Would it be a game changer? It means you can do overtime without being taxed for it, right? Or maybe less taxed.

      That sounds like a quick and dirty way to exhaust the population even more in order to keep the bread and circus going on.

      So you got the folks working 60-100 hours a week then because it makes them a lot more money, so they are just slaving their life away. Wouldn’t a better fix be raising minimum wages?

      • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com
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        1 hour ago

        I’m not the person you’re replying to, but though I agree that raising the minimum wage would be helpful, plenty of people are working overtime as is, even if they make more than 15/hr just to make ends meet. Plenty of people are working overtime for 20-30/hr. Would their wages go up if minimum wage went up? Maybe, but likely not and there’s certainly no guarantee. Plus, several states already have 15 as the minimum so it wouldn’t really matter to them.

        I’m a dem voter, and obviously there are much better ways to help people than tax free overtime, but I understand why that would be appealing.

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        1 hour ago

        Smart workers then get contracts that specify anything over two hours a week is overtime.