State unemployment benefits in the crosshairs

[spinbaby]

Source: CNNMoney.com

The jobless may soon find their state unemployment check is not in the mail.

A growing number of states are looking to cut back on jobless benefits to minimize the increase in unemployment taxes businesses pay. State officials are concerned that these tax hikes could deter companies from hiring.

Some states, such as Florida and Arkansas, are debating reducing the number of weeks that the jobless can collect state unemployment. Others, including Indiana, want to limit the number of people eligible for benefits.

Read more: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/State-unemployment-benefits-cnnm-680251613.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=4&asset=&ccode=

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Pull yourselves up by your own damned bread crumbs." - RepubliCons

"Oh, and while we are on the subject, more more more more more more more tax cuts for the rich. Sneer. Smirk."

- RepubliCons

[Overseas]

2. More GOP cruelty.

Give millions to the rich campaign donors. Financed by taking millions from the poorest most needy.

They want everyone who may have voted Democratic to be too depressed to vote in 2012.

[rasputin1952]

3. Good God...I can't even consider R's human beings anymore...

they are more like animals or demons straight from the gates of hell...:grr:

Who the hell voted for these assholes!

[Hubert Flottz]

4. People just like them...

Other Assholes!

[Hubert Flottz]

5. .

[Bandit]

19. The sad thing is more voted for them than for Democrats...

This is the country we live in, so we either deal with it or move away..:shrug:

[Lindsay]

6. The hits just keep on coming.

Death by a thousand cuts...to every means of support the non-plutocrats have had.

[lib2DaBone]

7. With the GOP "Shellacking" at the midterms..and weak leadership in the White House...

.. Unemployment insurance is (for the most part) a thing of the past.

Next up: Social Security, Public Schools and Medicare.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Yeap, at the same time, Arkansas is looking at tax 'relief' for capital gains.

[Autumn]

9. That's funny I don't think that tax ever kept

businesses from hiring before.

[RedCloud]

10. Repugs want to lose every goddamn election in 2012.

[and-justice-for-all]

11. Yup, I hope it works....

I want this term to be the final nail in the coffin for the teabagging republicons

[displacedvermoter]

12. Like in 2010?

[No Elephants]

13. 2012 will be after the results of 2010 Republicon wins have become known.

Everyone wants tax cuts--that don't hurt them or theirs.

Union busting, education cuts, unemployment cuts, possibe OASDI and medicare (even Obama's fuel subsidy cuts)--a pretty wide swath hurting everyone from their kids to their great grandmas.

[No Elephants]

14. Gee, I could earn a million a year, but I don't because I'd only have to pay taxes on it.

Please, Louise, give me a damned break.

[iwishiwas]

15. what next!!

[reformist2]

16. They're all Randians. As in Ayn Rand.

[defendandprotect]

17. Increase taxes on corporations to pay for unemployment benefits --

quite fair since taxpayers have paid the freight for moving jobs out of America!!

[demwing]

18. This seems so desperate..

like looters grabbing whatever they can while the power is off. They know the lights will be on soon, and in the light of day and under scrutiny, looters often get shot.

In a very weird way, this behavior from the Publicans is comforting, because one can easily see that they know they're on borrowed time.