Thank you for your work.
I want to follow up on Mr. Julian's questions about opportunity for workers with disabilities.
You've spoken about the need for us to watch carefully our personal income tax rates, but often I find that policy experts and people who study taxation forget about the extremely high marginal effective tax rates affecting low-income people in general and people with disabilities in particular.
When a disabled worker who is on some sort of assistance gets a job, they not only start paying payroll and income taxes but they immediately lose income support, housing support, drug benefits, etc., the combined consequence of which is a tax rate that can well exceed 100%. People can be significantly worse off when they work, get a raise, or add more hours.
Has your council considered this problem?