Legal Opinion
Karen Vaughn v. Cheryl Sullivan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 14, 1996No. 95-3719PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Means-tested public assistance programs place a tax on earnings. Not a direct tax, after the fashion of the Internal Revenue Code, but an indirect one. Greater earnings yield less assistance. This is what it means to say that a program is means-tested, with benefits concentrated on persons with lower incomes or wealth. At what rate should extra earnings reduce the levels of assistance? If every dollar of earnings reduces public assistance by a dollar, then beneficiaries have little or no incentive to work, may even have a strong incentive not to work (for work not…
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