Progressive Politics

Let’s be super clear: you cannot get a raise that functionally makes it so you make less a year unless you depend on means tested benefits, which is a separate problem driven by a different mechanism. The former is a myth that lower/middle income earning (usually conservatives) parrot because they don’t understand tax brackets and it’s a common, inaccurate political talking point.

You cannot have lower take home pay because you got a raise. You can lose benefits which functionally reduces your household budget but it’s not the same thing and the reason that happens has nothing to do with how taxes are structured.

TL;DR: getting a raise is never a bad thing for your take home income ever at all for any reason whatsoever.