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Posted by: Robert Greenstein
For legislation to extend the payroll tax cut through the end of 2012, House Republicans are expected to push for a provision on unemployment insurance (UI) that is appalling even by current Washington standards. Neither President Obama nor Congress should accept any payroll-tax legislation that includes it. Heres why:
The provision, part of a full-year payroll-tax bill that the House passed in December, would deny UI benefits to any worker who lacks a high school diploma or GED and is not enrolled in classes to get one or the other regardless of how long the person worked or whether he or she has access to adult education, which itself has been subject to significant budget cuts in the past few years and is heavily oversubscribed.
The proposal would deny UI benefits to hundreds of thousands of workers many of them middle-aged who have worked hard, played by the rules, and effectively paid UI taxes for years and who then were laid off due to no fault of their own.
This would violate the basic compact that the UI system has embodied since its creation under President Roosevelt in 1935 that people who have amassed a sufficient record of work, and on whose behalf UI taxes have faithfully been paid, may receive UI benefits for a temporary period if they are laid off and are searching for a new job.
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Republicans = morally bankrupt
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)Response to orpupilofnature57 (Reply #4)
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orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)mentality ,imposing the notion Ronnie Raygun used ," Anyone who wants a job ,has one " . Sycophants to their base ,at the expense of the human race.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Because by Washington standards this is a very appealing bill.
Edited for speling.
TheWraith
(24,331 posts)Would you like to elaborate on that? Because it sounded an awful lot like you were saying "Hey, it sounds good to me to institute extra obnoxious burdens on people who are already in a desperate situation!"
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)But I'll bet there are plenty of people in DC who think it's a great idea..
My own situation is pretty damn dire, I haven't had a steady job in so long I'd have to get out a calendar to tell you just how long it has been and I'm old enough that I don't expect to ever work for someone else again but too young to get Medicare or SS.
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gopiscrap
(23,662 posts)are nothing more than a bunch asshole, misogynist, racist, elitist, self centered, mean spirited neanderthals!!!!
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)This leaves me speechless.
great white snark
(2,646 posts)Shameless. Fucking shameless.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)hootinholler
(26,449 posts)It might seem to a casual observer you've had a change of mind.
Good to know.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Meanwhile, the Teabagger house is ready to punish anyone who hasn't finished fucking high school.
It's like high comedy, or would be if the stakes weren't so high.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Spazito
(49,523 posts)bvar22
(39,909 posts)...is an appalling idea.
This is a BIG Loser on BOTH counts,
so the inevitable "compromise" is going to suck hard.
The Republicans and their economic friends the "Centrist" Democrats have gotten very good at this game over the last 30 years.
Option 1 = SUCKS
Option 2 = Sucks HARDER.
America chooses Option 1,
the Parties "compromise" to Option 1.5,
and call it a bi-partisan "Victory".
You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.
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ProSense
(116,464 posts)...is an appalling idea.
This is a BIG Loser on BOTH counts,
so the inevitable "compromise" is going to suck hard.
The Republicans and their economic friends the "Centrist" Democrats have gotten very good at this game over the last 30 years.
Option 1 = SUCKS
Option 2 = Sucks HARDER.
America chooses Option 1,
the Parties "compromise" to Option 1.5,
and call it a bi-partisan "Victory".
..."Option 1" is stimulus that puts money in the pockets of low- and middle-income Americans.
"Option 2," not only does the opposite, but also denies people a benefit they rightfully earned.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)....instead of the unprecedented linking of the funding for Social Security DIRECTLY to the General Fund.
WHY?
Payroll Tax Holiday Directly Connects Social Security to The Deficit]
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1538388|
If reducing FICA Contributions is such a good idea,
lets just do away with it all together!
Just imagine all that everlasting "stimulus"!!!!
The creators of the most successful Social Program EVER insisted on a separate an independent funding mechanism for a damned good reason.
Will you be honest and admit that you know WHY they designed it that way?
Do you believe FDR or LBJ would support a reduction in contributions to the system that funds Social Security?
"Payroll Tax Holiday" is Republican Framing worthy of Frank Luntz, like the "Death Tax",
and Who doesn't want a "Holiday"!!! Whoopeeee!
That STINKS,
and I HATE hearing Republican Framing coming out of the mouths of our Party leadership.
You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.
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woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)marlakay
(11,351 posts)that says it wants less government is trying to tell us exactly how to live our lives and what manor it should be when we live it. We should go to school, graduate, pray, get job, get married (to person of opposite sex) have lots of babies and of course go to church and have everything about it plastered all over schools, work, government etc.
Is this what america wants?