so it makes sense to you for the state to pay you $1250 and then if you make $50,000 you pay that same $1250 back to the State? (2.5% tax on $50,000) seems rather stupid to me. We would then pay wages, health care, pension to more State employees at a net loss! How does that make sense to you? Paying State employees to give us money and then paying more State employees to collect it back?