A good rule of thumb is that if your program imposes marginal tax rates around 100% on some range of labor income, it's not pro-work
Our public policies are already a mess in this regard, with cutoffs and phaseouts for means-tested programs imposing very high marginal tax rates on some (but not all) low-income households
https://twitter.com/ScottElliotG/status/1364610472562032645
There are trade-offs here and if unless you want to abandon means-testing entirely (which is impractical for a lot of programs) you're going to elevate some marginal tax rates. But Romney's plan pushes toward making this better, and Hawley's would make it worse.
BTW I'm pretty sure a very large part of this wage subsidy would end up being captured by employers... if employees face a much higher marginal tax rate as their wages go up, they'll be more inclined to accept lower wages.
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