Strategies to raise tax revenues or make workers better off

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A senator wants to raise tax revenues and make workers better off. A staff member proposes raising the payroll tax paid by firms and using part of the extra revenues to reduce the payroll tax paid by workers.

Would this strategy achieve the senator's goal? Explain.

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