I absolutely love this idea: The Bad Boss Tax

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51. No. When designing rules and regulations, we should make sure to consider incentives.

Here you are willingly introducing adverse incentives when there are other policy choices available.

This notion that there needs to be a mechanism to punish employers should up for debate. If you look at the countries that generally do a good job of providing social services, the governments typically provide service like health care. More generally, they put institutions in place that generate higher wages and the government takes care of whatever needs are left unmet. This model seems to work quite well.

I don't really understand, why should you focus on the specific employees circumstance when deciding on whether a wage is appropriate. Should employers be looking at an individual's circumstances when setting a wage? Should they be paying people who would otherwise need public funding a higher amount than everyone else?