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I don't think they're saying that at all. I think the point was, a payroll tax won't necessarily increase costs for a company because it would be offset by eliminating the current healthcare costs.


Right, but my point is that to keep the relative advantage they’d have to pay.

For example imagine a company attracts talent by paying median + healthcare, and another that just paid median. For the latter they would have more costs, no?

The savings aren’t offset unless they were already offering the incentive.




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