[thriftwy]

Their employers will have to pay them more to commute in?

Noy many things more stupid than subsidying somebody else's private for-profit business costs.

[Daishiman]

I have no idea what world you live in where you think employee raises are managed in a thoroughly rational and logical way.

[thriftwy]

They will lose employees and will have to offer more to the new ones.

The state will stop bleeding so much cash.

[JAlexoid]

Em... I mean the American coal towns of just over 100 years ago paint a very different story.

That's when you have government give exclusive power to use resources to individuals and provide firepower to them. Remove all limitations of contractual terms and all labor protections.