To me, they’re lying to push a narrative. No one’s turning down a payrise because of that. Only stupid people who have never been offered that kind of money would ever make that kind of claim. So, I agree They’re idiots. Just in a slightly different way.
It does depend a bit. The tax brackets are nonsense of course, but there are countries with allowance systems that don’t fully decrease to zero as your income rises and at some point end in a hard cap. In those cases a raise might end up costing you due to losing the last part of an allowance.
But that never withheld me from accepting a raise, you’re going to have to push pass that threshold at some point anyway.
I understand those who do it because they will lose super benefits because even worth q kid i don’t qualify for food stamps and if i was making enough to qualify i might decline.
That’s another failure of our social programs. If you make x you get all the programs. If you make x+1 you get nothing. It definitely needs to be a sliding scale.
And we still hear people proudly saying they declined a raise that would put them in a higher tax bracket.
That’s because there are a lot of fucking idiots out there
To me, they’re lying to push a narrative. No one’s turning down a payrise because of that. Only stupid people who have never been offered that kind of money would ever make that kind of claim. So, I agree They’re idiots. Just in a slightly different way.
It does depend a bit. The tax brackets are nonsense of course, but there are countries with allowance systems that don’t fully decrease to zero as your income rises and at some point end in a hard cap. In those cases a raise might end up costing you due to losing the last part of an allowance.
But that never withheld me from accepting a raise, you’re going to have to push pass that threshold at some point anyway.
I understand those who do it because they will lose super benefits because even worth q kid i don’t qualify for food stamps and if i was making enough to qualify i might decline.
That’s another failure of our social programs. If you make x you get all the programs. If you make x+1 you get nothing. It definitely needs to be a sliding scale.
I just do it because I really don’t want the additional responsibilities and scrutiny.