shitposting

First, this is stupid, and I don't think anyone actually believes this. I mean, somebody believes it because it's a big world with a lot of people, but I see this used often as an example of ignorance, and I've never met an individual who turned down a raise over taxes. It seems like quicksand, something a lot of people know about and talk about, but exceedingly rare.

Second, there are subsidies and government programs with a gap between the upper limit of making enough to qualify for the program and the lower limit of making enough where you take a net loss. Medicaid alone is worth thousands of dollars, and getting a raise that puts you out of the Medicaid bracket could cost more than the value of the raise. There are sliding scales and other gap-closing legislative efforts, but it seems to me that this is a more likely cause of someone turning down a raise.