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JVS

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8. Sounds interesting, but I think the response would probably be to contract out low-end jobs.
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 09:54 AM
Apr 2013

I'll give you an example of contracting out. I know a family whose business is washing the linens (napkins, table cloths, towels, aprons, etc.) for about 1/3 of the restaurants in the city. This contracting out isn't tax motivated, it's done because most restaurants are not interested in the labor and machinery needed to take care of their own linens.

So what I see under your proposal is that companies will try to make it so that the low wage jobs are moved off their payroll. Instead of hiring a janitor at $7.50, they'd sign a contract with a "janitorial services" company.

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