The tax free overtime could be worth something if time and a half starts around 30 hours or something. Extra cash untaxed without sacrifice to personal time. Might be too progressive tho.
Idk how that's "too" progressive? It doesn't even really make that much sense imo.
If there's one idea that isn't terrible, it's a lower corporate tax rate for those who have domestic production, but that's incredibly complicated to implement and would vary wildly by industry.
And historically leads to stuff like putting the one final screw in domestically so you can slap that Made in America tag in it and avoid a heap of tariffs.
I never really get why those types of subsidies should go through the corporate tax. Want to subsidise domestic production? Provide a wage subsidy to companies that employ American workers. The corporate tax code should be as clean and simple as possible.
The problem is that instead of getting people better pay, you’d just cut their hours.
There’s no company in the world that likes paying overtime and for most low-wage hourly jobs, it’s probably the largest unnecessary expense that can be prevented.