Subject: Tax on Employee Benefits Comment: Our employees can barely afford to take the benefits when their average wage is $10.50/hr. If you tax those benefits you had just decrease their take home pay even more.These employees do not qualify for medicaid benefits because their income is above the required limit. To some employees with children, paying for benefits is out of the question since it would leave them with no food and gas money. When they get sick, they go to the ER and tax our health care system even more. They never pay these bills creating a bad credit history for them and further complicating their lives. Look at the whole picture. You need to be looking at making employee benefits more affordable to the common hourly worker not less. Benefits are not a luxury, they are a necessity that when met can leave people free to plan on making a better live for themselves. |