My statement had nothing to do with the cliche. Why would you apply money to the top of the organizational structure and hope it makes its way down to the employees when you could just pay the employees directly and remove all doubt?
To guarantee it made its way down you'd have to mandate the employer pass it down to the employee using some defined and agreed upon formula, that you'd then have to monitor compliance of and enforce. Or you could mail a check from the IRS which has all the addresses and bank account details. Seems like much less work and much less guess/hope.
