A senator wants to raise tax revenue and make workers better off. A staff member proposes raising the payroll tax paid by firms and using part of the extra revenue to reduce the payroll tax paid by workers. This would accomplish the senator's goals because the burden of a tax depends on who pays the tax. True or false?

true

Explanation:

The main aim of the senator is to make tax payers better off, and looking at what was proposed by the staff, to increase payroll tax paid by employers and reduce employees individual tax ,it balances the tax paying as companies will augument the payroll tax for its employees to meet up in taxes to be paid, while the employers will have a reduced individual tax payment , this will help the aim of the senators as individual employee with be must better individually.