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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums9 GOP states plan to cut extended unemployment- per Bloomberg News
https://news.yahoo.com/gop-led-states-cutting-300-214949246.html
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9 GOP states plan to cut extended unemployment- per Bloomberg News (Original Post)
JohnSJ
May 2021
OP
The majority in those states voted those people in who are rejecting the UE extension.
JohnSJ
May 2021
#4
They're angry because people don't want to work for slave wages with no benefits.
SharonAnn
May 2021
#5
ananda
(28,862 posts)1. Answer: cut funding to those states.
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gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)11. Boom. Something needs to be done about these
assholes. They should be ashamed of themselves.
riversedge
(70,239 posts)2. k and R
k
House of Roberts
(5,171 posts)3. Pay the money directly to the recipients.
Start setting up the mechanism to do this NOW!
JohnSJ
(92,201 posts)4. The majority in those states voted those people in who are rejecting the UE extension.
House of Roberts
(5,171 posts)9. Yeah, that's the way to win over voters.
Kick them while they're down.
JohnSJ
(92,201 posts)10. 2022 will tell the story
SharonAnn
(13,775 posts)5. They're angry because people don't want to work for slave wages with no benefits.
durablend
(7,460 posts)6. I wouldn't put it past some states
To start sending dunning/overpayments letter to even legitimate UI recipients demanding they get their money back out of spite.
JohnSJ
(92,201 posts)7. They cannot do that
dalton99a
(81,512 posts)8. So they don't want extra federal money in their economy
Fucking assholes