“She works part time and received a promotion to supervisor increasing her pay by about $325/month. S-8 reevaluated her and lowered her subsidy by $350.”
That scenario is playing out nationally as our decent jobs are shipped overseas, except it doesn’t revolve around declining promotions; it is about declining work in general. The “safety net” has become so profitable that there is no motive to work; high taxes on the middle class have created an anomaly where low-wage jobs simply offer nothing the nanny-state wouldn’t have provided (without the 40 hours of effort). This dovetails with the whole argument that illegals are doing “jobs Americans don’t want”. Americans always did those jobs when they could earn a living; now they can “earn a living” staying home, while those jobs are done by illegals.
Imagine the bread riots once you move to change the laws and ask people to work again.