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Why 100 employees? Why 100mm turnover? What are all these random values about? Any science in it, or just a guess?

There are and have been all kinds of stimulation policies in Europe. If you are looking for ideas, have a look at which of them where successful and which were not.

For example in 2008/09, the German gov't paid companies a part of wages if they abstained from laying off people. Was a win-win a year later. The companies saved money because they did not need to re-hire tons of employees when the economy recovered, and the gov't saved money on all kinds of welfare expanses they could avoid paying.

There are many other such programs around, some successful, many not. But it would probably be better in the hands of the US states and not the federal gov't.



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