&quot;Employers are subject to market forces just like everyone else.&quot;<p>Much, much less than the people you&#x27;re targeting with these taxes. &quot;Oh, you can&#x27;t afford to drive to work now? You&#x27;re fired. There&#x27;s a line of people out the door who can and want a job.&quot;<p>&quot; If they need workers in order to make money, but workers can&#x27;t afford to get to work, they will pay more money&quot;<p>No, they won&#x27;t. They&#x27;ll pick people up from the pile of applications they have, and try again. Rinse and repeat.<p>&quot; If you don&#x27;t believe that, fine. Just raise the minimum wage instead.&quot;<p>Or how about we just don&#x27;t institute an extremely regressive tax scheme?<p>Seriously, your lack of empathy for the very people you&#x27;re going to attack with your plan is astounding.