It's completely crazy. An employer paying better wages is an expense for the employer and a social good to be encouraged not an externality to be punished. (View Post)

It's like RCS1000 always says about illegal working and the Swiss; one party should always be better off from being honest. If that happens you give a tremendous incentive to be honest. We curre… (View Post)

Indeed. My longest standing number one desire is to see UC, IC and NIC all merged into one. Have a single rate of real taxation and then absolutely no means tested anything ever. (View Post)

But it's also exactly why it should be done. Having a jobs tax like that is completely counterproductive. It also means whole segments of the economy find a mammoth incentive for employer and em… (View Post)

WASPI women aren't getting less than that, they're just not getting their pension five years before their male counterparts anymore. (View Post)